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When lofty ideals turn to human disaster
Mr Jefferson's Lost Cause
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Happy campus tops wish list
The vital ingredients that give some universities a competitive edge have been revealed by a survey of the perceptions and preferences of 10,000 undergraduates. The study, by the research company...
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1066 and all that, then a Norman needling
As governments on each side of the Channel quarrel about the political issues of the day, a more academic battle looks set to flare up - over whether the Bayeux Tapestry was made in England or France...
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'You need to work down the memory but avoid threatening things'
Forensic psychologist Ray Bull has been praised for helping police interview a traumatised rape victim Ray Bull received a rare commendation from the Metropolitan Police Force this week for his help...
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On the move ...
* City University London has appointed the following: Chris Gethin , former director of corporate partnerships at the Royal National Institute for Deaf People, director of development; Sue Gunn ,...
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'Naive' UK risks losing millions
European universities may soon be able to scoop up UK researchers and their research council funding following a partnership agreement between funding agencies. Graham Richards, chairman of chemistry...
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So, are you thinking what we're thinking?
"Great minds don't think alike," Aberdeen university said when it launched a staff recruitment drive with a full-page advertisement in The Times Higher last month. In fact, it seems that great minds...
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Science awed at coral reef discovery
Scientists investigating the destruction of coral in the US Virgin Islands were shocked to discover near-perfect reefs at depths never fully explored, writes Anna Fazackerley. A team of ocean...
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OU takes expertise to Africa
A ten-year project to help train thousands of teachers in Africa was unveiled by the Open University this week. As world leaders prepare to discuss aid and debt relief for the developing world at...
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Next week
The parents are coming! Why UK universities will have to adapt to US-style pushy mums and dads PLUS The rise in teaching-only staff
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An enfant terrible reaches maturity
Social science has put its wild past behind it and grown up, says Olga Wojtas The British Sociological Association is bestowing honorary memberships on its oldest and most loyal supporters as part of...
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Stalwarts honoured for their support over 50 years ... and counting
Samuel Waxman , 86, is the son of Jewish emigres from Poland. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association for 50 years, though he has never been an academic. Mr Waxman worked in...
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Queen's Birthday Honours List
KNIGHTS BACHELOR Knighthoods Roderick Castle Floud , president, London Metropolitan University, for services to higher education. Richard Lavenham Gardner , Royal Society professor of zoology, Oxford...
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Master mariner, neuroscientist and v-c honoured
Captain Christopher Elliott , who has been appointed MBE, has been ferrying scientists to and from Antarctica for 40 years, first as a crewman and then as skipper of successive British Antarctic...