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Staff consulted over pensions in bid to avoid "undeniable threat to jobs"

Lecturers are once again being consulted about the future of their pensions as universities prepare for a planned increase in employer and employee contributions that is set to come into force later this year. With the 2017 valuation of the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) concluded, universities have until 14th March

By Joanna Wormald

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Infectious diseases could be diagnosed with smartphones in sub-Saharan Africa

A new Imperial-led review has outlined how health workers could use existing phones to predict and curb the spread of infectious diseases. The review was published in Nature, and involved researchers from Imperial, the Karolinska Institute, UCL, The University of KwaZulu-Natal, the Africa Health Research Institute, and the

By Henry Alman