BA-ESRC initiative
The British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council have announced a new joint scheme to fund visiting fellowships. The fellowships, which will be for a minimum of two months, aim to...
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Everyone will still get a chance with us, v-c says
Dropouts and cuts won't change Bolton's entrance policy, George Holmes tells Melanie Newman
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL- Award winner: Robert BickersInstitution: University of BristolValue: £34,707Treaty port China and its legacies, 1842-1999- Award winner: Bryan...
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Iconic mistakes
The reviewer's remarks on Ads to Icons: How Advertising Succeeds in a Multimedia Age (Books, June 22) illustrates the danger of skimming, not reading, a book. Winston Fletcher misrepresented the book...
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Malaysia: full of Western promise
UK institutions seeking to consolidate their position overseas are discovering Malaysia's potential. John Gill reports from Kuala Lumpur
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Big expansion plans to take city by storm
Two-year degrees at heart of Gloucestershire goal to win 6,000 more students, writes Melanie Newman.
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Research intelligence - Fancy coming to my place?
Fellowships tempt rising research stars from abroad to UK to strike up long-term relations, writes Zoe Corbyn
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Unique Melbourne
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
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'I was a football hooligan, so I had to break the law'
A law lecturer argues that ethics rules must sometimes allow researchers to act illegally in fieldwork. Melanie Newman writes
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Life-risking 'spy' plan pulled
Academic protests have forced the Foreign Office to delay an anti-terror project. Phil Baty reports Two research councils put plans to enlist academics in the War on Terror on hold this week after...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: Malcolm ValeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £721,073The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468Award winner: James HegartyInstitution: Cardiff UniversityValue...
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Greek fire and purple majesty
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Anti-terror funds awarded
Winners of nine grants from a controversial Foreign Office-funded programme to help combat terrorism have been announced. Last year, The Times Higher revealed that the Economic and Social Research...
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Demographic decline threatens Europe
European universities will need to shrink by 2020 or recruit large numbers of overseas students to adjust to demographic changes, researchers have said. A paper in the journal International Higher...
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God
Fifty years ago, the seismologist Charles Richter - he of the famous scale - lamented that "ancient accounts of earthquakes do not help us much; they are incomplete, and accuracy is usually...