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What's up, my Lord, sweetest dear teacher?
Marcus Aurelius in Love
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The pragmatic leader cloaked in a robe of homespun piety
The Bush Administration
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'I very much value the opportunity to listen to students' perspectives'
One of the fathers of HTML joins UWE to help train the web's next generation of developers and torch-bearers It is hard to imagine life without the internet, but there was a time when it was the...
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A healthy debate Mary Warnock considers the ethical case for ever-improving medical interventions that may ultimately let the wealthy few live for ever PLUS In the dock: why universities are still...
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Millions of free books to be put online
A consortium of US universities has taken a major step towards the mass digitisation of its book collections. In a move that offers a non-profit alternative to commercial digitisation schemes offered...
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Poorest students get us grant filip
President Bush has signed a bill to put an extra £5.7 billion into financial help for poor students. The College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007 will put the money into Pell grants, which are...
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Ahmadinejad's US visit stirs funding trouble
A US politician has put forward a bill proposing that a prestigious university be denied state funds because it hosted a talk by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Republican Duncan Hunter said...
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Huge donation to benefit US college
Claremont McKenna College in the US has been given a £100 million donation, among the biggest ever received by a university. The gift was made by alumnus Robert Day and will create a scholarship...
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Mammoth step forward in DNA work
Mammoths may have pointed researchers to the latest weapon in crime detection. An international team of scientists who have retrieved large amounts of DNA from prehistoric mammoths say the technique...
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Australia rewards good performance
More than 20 Australian universities will get a share of a £42 million government fund to reward good performance. The Learning and Teaching Performance Fund is split between science, computing,...
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Help online to flush out phishing frauds
Researchers at a US university are educating people who fall for internet banking scams by taking a leaf out of the fraudsters' book. A team at Carnegie Mellon University sent an e-mail to people who...
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Possible pointer to reversing diabetes
Australian researchers have found a way to reverse diabetes in rats, which could point to a cure for the disease in humans. The team at Sydney University of Technology put insulin-producing genes...
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The hard line on linen
Breaking news from Bradford University: a message posted on the front page of the university's internal staff website - under "Latest news" - reveals that the marketing department has lost a...
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Smurfs up at Bath
It is reassuring to see students knuckling down to serious study at the start of a new academic year. The Press Association reports this week that students from Bath University have beaten the world...