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Jules Pretty sets course on a journey across the oceans that haunt our imaginations
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Research will be focused in just 25 universities by 2025 as the UK sector becomes increasingly stratified, higher education experts have predicted.
Open courseware is a shop window and a pressure valve, Delft leader argues. Jack Grove reports
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New ZealandFee increase bid rejectedThe head of the body that represents Maori higher education students in New Zealand has welcomed the government's decision to turn down a university's application...
Seven university, business and charity partnerships have been announced as winners of the second round of the Research Partnership Investment Fund.
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Losses for UK and US as Eastern excellence drives start to bear fruit. Elizabeth Gibney reports
Only one in five offers by the New College of Humanities has gone to a person from a state school so far, according to A.C. Grayling, the master of the new institution.
The suggestion that Pearson's apparent interest in acquiring the College of Law (The Week in Higher Education, 15 December) might cause the state-funded sector to "...feel like wildebeest about to...
Phil Baty on the institutions creating valuable niches for themselves in a fast-changing environment
Source: ReutersHealth down the TubePeople working or travelling on underground railways for sustained periods of time could be at increased risk of health problems because of metals in the ultra-fine...