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University of WarwickSee it, smell it, love itA trip to the zoo can form a vital part of a child's education about science and conservation, according to a study. Research conducted at London Zoo by...
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Odds and quads
These amulets form part of a collection held at the University of Michigan's Taubman Health Sciences Library.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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9 June 2011
Machines for loving - Meet your new best friend, carer and confidant
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Inside Higher Ed: Thank you for the scholarship
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
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Fresh flashpoint in New College backlash
The backlash against plans for a new £18,000-a-year college for the humanities intensified when protesters set off a flare during a talk by the institution’s founding master.
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Dons agree with Oxford movement: ‘no confidence’ in Willetts
Academics at the University of Oxford have voted through a motion of “no confidence” in David Willetts, the universities and science minister.
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New College, curiously familiar courses
Writing course materials for Goldsmiths was a young Gabriel Egan’s first scholarly work. Two decades later, they’re part of a ‘superstar’ institution’s offerings
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PAC minds the gap: MPs sound warning over fees reform
An influential cross-party committee of MPs has warned that the government could face a funding gap of “several hundred million pounds” as a result of its policy on tuition fees and raised the...
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The perils of online ‘friendship’
Thinking of befriending your students on a social-media site? You may want to think again. While it may be a good way to meet students “on their terms”, a lawyer specialising in the use of social...
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Top names, top whack: new humanities-focused institution to charge £18K fees
A new private university college is to be launched, specialising in the arts and humanities and charging tuition fees of £18,000 a year.
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There’s good news as well as bad, international educators hear
Universities have been urged to use financial worries as an opportunity to reassess their internationalisation strategies in the spirit of “never letting a good crisis go to waste”.
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Opinion: Very in curia practices
In a climate of higher fees and rising unemployment, student litigation is likely to increase. Adam Brett offers his evaluation of what universities must do to stay out of court
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Tobacco cash bad for your moral health, Durham told
Durham University has been urged by a senior official at Cancer Research UK to return funding it received from British American Tobacco.