Coventry University - Pulling in the favours
A broadcasting lecturer has used his contacts to secure a list of guest speakers that, he says, others "would die for". The fourth birthday of Coventry University's Coventry Conversations series is...
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Edinburgh College of Art/Edinburgh - Round the old town
A "walk through time" has been made possible by a program for the most up-to-date mobile phones that shows users where they are located on ancient maps. The program, developed by a team from...
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Dial 'P' for pest
A project that gives farmers in rural India tailored advice about solving crop problems has won an award. The "Kheti system", developed by academics at Sheffield Hallam University, lets farmers in...
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SFC withheld papers from publication, say principals
Reluctance to publish meetings in full is keeping 'secret discussions' private, writes Hannah Fearn
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Odds and quads
This ladies' lavatory, listed by English Heritage as a superb example of Victorian luxury design, is on the University of Greenwich's Avery Hill campus, and is still in daily use by the staff.In 1882...
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Library that helped bring Nazis to justice to relocate
Funding will also create new Pears Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism. Matthew Reisz reports
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World in motion: 14 January 2010
When research data company Thomson Reuters last week revealed plans for the database that will fuel the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, THE editor Ann Mroz said the details gave her...
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Overseas Briefing
FranceElite turn noses up at poorThe elite grandes ecoles have been criticised by the French Government for their reluctance to accept more students from poor families. La Conference des Grandes...
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Harvard encourages veterans to lay down their burdens
Scholars over 65 are offered retirement plan to save cash and bring in fresh blood. Jon Marcus reports
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHAward winner: Sebastian Brendan LucasInstitution: Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital TrustValue: £35,048Predictive clinico-pathological features derived from...
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Top of the world
The next head of the Gates Cambridge Trust, Robert Lethbridge, is confident the scheme will produce future world leaders
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Appointments
An international faith expert from the University of Derby has been appointed to a new national panel to improve relations between the Government and religious communities. Paul Weller, head of...
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Deficits threaten final-salary schemes for support staff
Universities seeking alternatives are accused of unfairness by unions, writes John Morgan
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UK politicians join fight to end Italian 'inequities'
British lecturers in Italian universities battling to end "30 years of discrimination" have won support from members of the Cabinet and the Conservative Shadow Cabinet.Non-Italian lecturers teaching...
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News in brief
RemunerationPay deal grudgingly acceptedHigher education staff will finally be paid last year's 0.5 per cent pay rise after a union decided not to oppose the offer. The Educational Institute of...