Hundreds of posts empty in Germany
More than 10 per cent of professorships in languages and culture were unfilled between 1995 and 2005, according to a German lecturers' union. The German Association of University Professors and...
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Indian push to increase training
India will set up 40 specialist higher education institutions and 30 universities, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has announced. He said that the country would establish five institutes for...
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Breaking up is not so hard to do
Generations of authors, singers and film-makers had it wrong - ending a relationship is not that difficult after all, according to a new study. The research at Northwestern University found people...
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Oregon benefits from $100m donation
The founder of sportswear giant Nike has given $100 million to the University of Oregon for an athletics fund. Phil and Penny Knight's donation is the largest gift in the university's history. The...
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Canberra pledges A$1bn cash boost
Australian higher education is to get a A$1 billion (£404 million) windfall after the national budget surplus was revealed to be higher than expected. Australian treasurer Peter Costello said the...
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Campus pursues renewable energy
A US university is believed to be the first in the country to use gas from a rubbish dump as its main energy source. The University of New Hampshire will pump purified gas from a landfill site...
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College staff move to halt assets sale
A group of staff at a US college that has suspended operations because of a financial crisis has lodged a lawsuit against the institution. Antioch College staff have applied for an injunction to...
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University in cancer centre coalition
A US university and two hospitals have pledged $60 million (£30 million) to set up a new cancer centre. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and...
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Professor sparks caviar production
Look out Russia, Florida could be the new home of a multi- billion-dollar caviar industry thanks to the work of a local academic. Frank Chapman, associate professor of fisheries and aquatic sciences...
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Laurie Taylor column
You have reached the office of Professor Lapping. I am afraid that Professor Lapping is away from his office for the next ten days on his annual vacation and cannot be contacted until his return....
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Leader: An old club much improved by new blood
"The present moment may be remembered in two ways," opined The Times Higher in 1992, "as the time when Britain's still inward system of higher education was irreversibly opened up... to the...
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It's Mickey Mouse research 2
Derby's vice-chancellor explains it all (my italics): "This report is an unfortunate combination of misplaced assertion, misunderstanding of the educational needs of important commercial sectors and...
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Tyranny of research 2
As you say in your editorial "Destined to be second best" (August 24), repeated assurances from institutions that teaching and research share absolute equality do not represent reality. You are right...
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Student facilities
Adam Farley (Letters, August 17) suggests that Edge Hill University should invest in student facilities. Perhaps the £60 million we have spent on campus developments over the past decade and the £220...
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It's Mickey Mouse research 1
The TaxPayers' Alliance ("V'cs attack tax-cut lobby's 'Mickey Mouse' criticisms", August 24) has simply selected broad keywords, such as food, leisure, tourism and equine - billion-pound industries...