Plans to avoid debacle
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service and the Scottish Qualifications Authority have signed an agreement that aims to avoid a repeat of last year's examination results debacle. Ucas made...
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Brits secure EU funds
UK universities have secured a share of European Union funds totalling @2.3 million (£1.52 million) earmarked for 19 projects involving European, US and Canadian higher education institutions. UK...
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Scots numbers rise
Student enrolments to Scotland's further education colleges have risen 25 per cent in the past three years, surpassing the Scottish Executive's target of an extra 40,000 students, or a 10 per cent...
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Webcast for Dearing
The Higher Education Policy Institute will be launched at the Royal Institution on February 18 with a lecture by Lord Dearing, its chairman, on developments since his report five years ago. A live...
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Space centre gets cash
Liverpool John Moores University has won funding for an £8 million International Space and Astronomy Centre. This will be a joint venture between Mersey Ferries, with its parent company Merseytravel...
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work recommended by both left and right: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were...
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A meeting of tongues
Contact Linguistics
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The high fliers on edge of anarchy
Secret Classrooms
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Putting secret justice on trial
Open Justice
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Talk of tort law as a tool for tortured
Torture as Tort
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Diversity bike wobbles as the training wheels come off
Silence at Boalt Hall
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Twitching veil of ignorance
Ethics, Economics, and Politics
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Gripped by a Pepys show
Samuel Pepys
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Biblical lives and secrets revealed
The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Chomsky wipes slate clean
On Nature and Language