Plate-glass perils
To Salford's Sue Powell ("Staines has fallen", Letters, 7 April), surely aiming brickbats at "philistines" is an ill-advised activity for senior academics living in plate-glass universities?Anthony...
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A starring role beckons
As the student experience becomes more crucial to universities' survival, administrators see a chance to step out of their supporting parts. John Morgan examines how their positions may expand and...
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Rising in the East
Fifty years ago this week, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin fulfilled humanity's ancient dream by ascending into the heavens. Colin Pillinger considers the First Cosmonaut's space odyssey and the...
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2011: Shortlist
Shortlist picks out the people who help keep universities running even in the toughest of times
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TV reviews: Dispatches & Campus
Gary Day finds absurdity in two programmes on universities - and only one is on a fictional campus
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Campus round-up
University of SheffieldMexican wave reaches YorkshireA university has signed an agreement with Mexico's national science body to promote joint industrial research. The University of Sheffield's...
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Odds and quads
This model ship, made of matchsticks by members of the "Upington 26", is on display in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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14 April 2011
Into the limelight - Administrators believe reforms herald a bigger role
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Liam Burns elected as next NUS president
Liam Burns has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, pledging to āreject the idea of students as consumersā and ādismantle the fees regimeā.
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Scottish universities āshould follow the Ivy League modelā
Scottish universities should privatise and adopt an Ivy League-style system of high tuition fees and bursaries to protect their standing, according to a leading educationalist.
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Nearly one in ten Salford staff jobs may go
The University of Salford has announced that up to 218 jobs are at risk in a move that affects around one in 10 staff at the institution.
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So long and sorry: NUSā Porter apologises for lack of planning over protests
The outgoing president of the National Union of Students has used an opening speech at its annual conference to apologise for elements of his ācontroversialā tenure.
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Clegg is odd man out in MPsā call for University of Sheffield pensions rethink
The University of Sheffield has put on hold plans to cut the pensions of its lowest-paid staff after all local MPs with the exception of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg āurged a rethinkā.
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Sheffield, Southampton, Soas, University of the Arts London unveil Ā£9K fees
Four more English universities have unveiled plans to charge the top rate of tuition fees, bringing the number to have opted for the maximum to 32 of the 44 institutions to date that have stated...