China move may open floodgates
Mainland recognition of foreign degrees taught in Hong Kong is key for UK, writes David Matthews
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Gloucestershire partnership a failure, says QAA
The “systemic failure” of a university’s partnership with a private college meant that 40 master’s students did not take their course, the sector’s quality watchdog has found.The Quality Assurance...
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Students fight for their lives as living and dead collide
LHC maintenance crew turn into zombies in film by Cern-based student. Matthew Reisz reports
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Court allows patenting of stem cell technologies
A court in Germany has given a “glimmer of hope” to inventors hoping to patent human embryonic stem cell technologies in Europe.
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Philosophical element completes comprehensive overhaul
School of Humanities bolsters Tsinghua’s ascent to global elite, Carolynne Wheeler hears in Beijing
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Just as bad, in a different way
With radical changes causing discontent across Europe, Susan Bassnett wonders if UK scholars are justified in feeling so aggrieved about their lot
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Odds and quads
A 17th-century priest's chasuble in hand-made gros point lace and a blue sample from a 20th-century design portfolio are among the objects, documents and artefacts, some 75,000 in number, held in the...
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Appointments
University of GreenwichDarrick JolliffeA specialist in the psychology of crime and the development of criminal behaviour who has joined the University of Greenwich said he liked the idea of being...
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Multilayered intellect
Toby Miller did not take a straight path into academia - far from it, having been, among other things, a DJ, a ditch digger, a speech-writer, a bureaucrat, a security guard and a merchant banker. He...
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Name, rank and number
Christopher Bigsby can’t keep up with the proliferation of new universities
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Sandwich short of a picnic
Funding system must ensure it does not hamper institutions’ ability to offer work placements crucial to graduate employment
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From Where I Sit - More to Moocs than moolah
I spent some of the past semester trying to be an active learner on a Coursera massive open online course (Mooc) on modern poetry from the University of Pennsylvania. It was an impressive, well-...
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Major breakthrough in science of atoms - latest
One of our leading theoretical physicists, Dr T.P. Burlap, has come up with a radical idea for utilising the new “miracle material” graphene.In a paper published in the latest edition of The British...
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Another world's words
Is the use of corporate jargon a surprise, asks Keir Thorpe, when university managers are made to feel so insecure?
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Slow ethics will tackle moral winter
We need to calm our frenetic lives and let virtues such as integrity, patience and respectfulness prevail, reflects Ann Gallagher