It's a tricky business
The Open University Business School could perhaps itself benefit from some management training. Prospective alumni bombarded its switchboard recently, worried their MBA degree certificates would be...
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Knock all you like, but this government's door is shut
Why does higher education need a radical review, and why is it taking place in secret? asks Diana Green Myriad reviews of institutional funding and student finance were conducted in the run-up to the...
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Dull star shows it's really hot stuff
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Sun - Nearest Star
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A little lost with A to Z
The Penguin Archaeology Guide
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Founded on a love for sharks with one ear
The British Museum
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Chinese whispers, a dangerous game
Treason by the Book
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What Iraq can buy with a case full of cash
Saddam's Bombmaker
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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 by the man who first spoke of "the stream of consciousness": "It is with no small amount of...
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Simplicity of the complex
More is different
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Einstein's morals are pithy as Aesop
It Must Be Beautiful
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Civil servants are already working on plans to link salaries with student appraisals of their lecturers" - THES, September 13 . Dear Dr Quintock, As you will be aware, this university has recently...
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Leader: Can we meet you halfway to cloud cuckoo land?
As clearing ends and the academic year gets under way, the latest enrolments show that universities and colleges are expanding, but too slowly to meet the government's target of 50 per cent...
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Trends in HE: Status: more than just a name
As new universities celebrate their tenth birthday, John Pratt mourns the loss of the genuinely innovative polytechnics It is ten years since former polytechnics became universities, but any...
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Trends in HE: Pioneers of urban frontier find kinship close to home
A sense of unity will enable new-generation universities to be loud and proud, says Janice Reid Around the world, new universities are feeling the challenges of a changing global economy and...
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Trends in HE: The big picture: charting the changes facing UK higher education
Please see Higher education trends 2002 in the Statistics section for charts and tables giving a comprehensive picture of Britain's higher education system and its evolution over two...