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Regarding "Welsh government rules on Glyndwr merger proposals": while I am pleased for Glyndwr University that it has avoided a forced merger, I fear this may only be a stay of execution.However, I...
Regarding "Welsh government rules on Glyndwr merger proposals": while I am pleased for Glyndwr University that it has avoided a forced merger, I fear this may only be a stay of execution.However, I...
"Say it ain't so, Joe: US sector's pact with the drop-kick devil" (24 November), your article on the domination of many US universities by sport and its financial clout, offers little that is new....

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The Church was the heart of medieval life, says Gary Day, full of symbolism, beauty and grotesqueries

Julia Swindells was a "reluctant academic star" who, despite making Cambridge her home, "always remained a Northerner in her heart".Professor Swindells was born in Macclesfield on 13 August 1951, and...

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John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.
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The University of Sheffield has withdrawn an injunction that students feared would ban campus protests.
Two proposals have been put forward to avert the āpolarisationā of the sector as a result of the governmentās student number plans.

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
A university is launching a competition to win an āUltimate Scholarshipā, which would give the winner free tuition at the institution for life.

David Cameron is to announce a new government strategy developing links between university medical research, the NHS and the pharmaceutical industry.