The Open University - Download festival
A university is celebrating its 10-millionth download on iTunesU. The Open University put its first piece of free educational content on the website in June 2008: now, an average of 375,000 downloads...
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University of Leeds - Web to snare the best
The Business School at the University of Leeds has appointed a team of social-media experts to raise its profile and encourage students of the highest calibre to apply. Leeds has signed a contract...
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University of Cambridge - Queen Nancy and the Iron Lady
Letters penned by a former prime minister and the wife of a late US president have received their first public airing at the University of Cambridge. The correspondence between Margaret Thatcher and...
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Coventry University - Glittering prizes
A department that created a device to ease a painful multiple sclerosis symptom and a knowledge-transfer "champion" have won awards for Coventry University. Coventry won two of the four categories at...
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University of Hull - Mesmerising results
Researchers at the University of Hull have hypnotised university students and studied their brain activity to see if the effect is real. The research, published this week in the Consciousness and...
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The Robert Gordon University - Practically green
The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has launched its Centre for Understanding Sustainability in Practice, which will educate people to embrace sustainable behaviour in their daily lives. Its...
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Odds and quads
This is the box used by Sir Patrick Manson, the pioneering Scottish parasitologist, to bring infected mosquitoes to London from Rome in 1901.Those that survived the journey were allowed to feed on...
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Ministers and sociologists shown ways to stay in step
Conference considers how to close the gap between scholars and policymakers. Matthew Reisz reports
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Managers get down to business
Oxford course aims to put entrepreneurs in the senior common room. Hannah Fearn reports
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Being philosophical may be limited to 'leisured' classes
Post-1992s scrap courses as students avoid 'non-vocational' subject. Hannah Fearn reports
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UEA offers A-level tuition to science high-flyers
The University of East Anglia is marketing itself as an alternative to boarding school for high-flying A-level students hoping to study at the university of Oxford or Cambridge.In a potentially...
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Scottish impact
Demonstrating the university's value to Scotland will be Gerry McCormac's goal in his new role of principal at Stirling
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Appointments
The founding director of Imperial College London's Statistical Advisory Service has been appointed as the first Aviva chair in statistics at the University of East Anglia. Elena Kulinskaya will...
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They're not unreasonable
Impact statements are intended ultimately to benefit society, argues Dave Delpy, not interfere with funding
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How to take a financial crisis and turn it to your advantage
John Ashworth's method of coping with massive cuts at Salford in the early 1980s will be a useful model for universities in the future