Campus round-up
Eggs benedictionA research project is under way that aims to shed light on how the relationship between humans and chickens has developed over the past 8,000 years. Led by Mark Maltby, reader in...
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Official history of Blighty’s propaganda machine
Project unveiled to give Ministry of Information the historical treatment. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
ChinaUS joint venture gets green lightThe Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of a new institution created jointly by a US and a Chinese university. Duke Kunshan University, a...
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No crosses, but plenty of cross words
Proposal to outlaw overt displays of religious affiliation would affect academics. Nathan Greenfield reports
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Inking and doing
Rivka Isaacson tells how her Jewish background and job as a lecturer in chemical biology have fuelled her fascination
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Letters
Hey, teacher, leave those trainers aloneI agree with Anthony Seldon (“Right to reply”, Opinion, 19 September): university students should receive high-quality teaching and effective student feedback...
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Sally Feldman - Rite to party
Freshers’ Week rituals mark the transition to adulthood, says Sally Feldman
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Glasgow Caledonian to open New York campus
Glasgow Caledonian University is to become the first UK university to open a campus in New York.
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Students support around 800,000 jobs, says report
Student expenditure supports more than 830,000 jobs in the UK, a new study says.
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Universities not focusing on teaching, says ex-minister
Many universities are “still not focused enough on teaching” and are using £9,000 fees to subsidise research.
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Smartphone version of Unistats launched
Prospective students can now search for information about higher education on their mobile phones after the government’s Unistats website was updated.
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CBI head John Cridland: country has ‘too many’ universities
England has “too many” universities and some are likely to close, the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry has warned.
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Student numbers soar almost 10 per cent
The number of undergraduates accepted on to courses has soared by 9 per cent after dipping dramatically last year, latest figures show.
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Harvard launches huge fundraising campaign
Harvard University has launched a fundraising campaign that it hopes will boost its coffers by $6.5 billion (£4.1 billion).