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Who got that cash?
The world's third-largest design engineering firm has awarded a distinguished academic £700,000 to revitalise a university engineering department. Chun Qing Li will join Greenwich University next...
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UCU tackles racism at grassroots level
Union calls for equality support groups on every campus, says Tony Tysome. Academics will be asked to set up black and minority ethnic (BME) staff support groups in every university as part of a...
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Partners unite to build centre of Arab expertise
Durham, Edinburgh and Manchester universities are seeking "the best of the best" for 39 masters and doctoral studentships to study the Arab world. The universities aim to create an elite group of...
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Today's news
Universities to get guidance on tackling extremism Britain faces a serious threat from Muslim extremists trying to recruit university students to terrorism, the Higher Education Minister, Bill...
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Times Higher Awards 2007 - The Evening in Pictures
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Laurie Taylor Column
From : The Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive. Subject : Times Higher Awards. A small number of short-term non-renewable contract colleagues have expressed concern about Poppleton University's...
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Felipe Fernández-Armesto
My university's emblem is an elephant. Before taxidermy transformed him, the original Jumbo was London Zoo's biggest ever pachyderm. P. T. Barnum, the unrivalled showman, bought him for £10,000 in a...
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Leader: UK excellence deserves reward
Higher education systems all over the developed world are under pressure from politicians. This week alone, we report John Howard, Australia's Prime Minister, urging more young people to become...
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Leader: Studies in confusion
One study adjusts teaching quality scores for "bias" towards old universities, another warns against the unfairness of comparing small universities with big ones in the National Student Survey. Pity...
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The spectre of racism remains
As a former student of the department of Russian and Slavonic studies at Leeds University, I witnessed the unfolding of the Frank Ellis affair from close quarters and, at times, with no little...
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Mad about Manchester 1
In response to comments from the parent of a Manchester University student studying English (Letters, November 9), my son is in the second year of a chemistry degree at Manchester. He has 20 hours of...
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Mad about Manchester
If I were a student again, I'd be protesting about the paucity of lectures. Quite rightly, our students want value for money and they're not getting it. When I was at Cambridge University in the...
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Unique Melbourne
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
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Reasonable requests
We at the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection were disappointed to be so terribly misrepresented in your article "Primate research 'hit list' sparks fear of attacks" (November 9). It is...