'You're hired'...no, wait...'You've got a scholarship'?
Ghana tunes in for British Council’s Apprentice-style reality TV show. David Matthews reports
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Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Sergio Sismondo on a critical exploration of a new, lucrative model for public well-being
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Research intelligence - Now she'll work by her own rules
Astrid Wissenburg helped set the policies she will be bound by in her new OU role. Paul Jump writes
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A city's spirits unextinguished
An exhibition foregrounds the people of Dresden and their many and contradictory stories rather than their historical tragedy, discovers Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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The Outer Limits - Waking the dead
In the first of a new series on academics who conduct research in extreme circumstances, Gillian Fowler recalls the six years she spent working as a forensic anthropologist exhuming mass graves in...
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Tim Rix, 1934-2012
One of the UK's leading academic publishers has died.Tim Rix was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire on 4 January 1934 and educated at Radley College. After national service in the Royal Navy, he studied...
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Campus round-up
University of BedfordshireTouch of the IrishA course equipping undergraduates studying physical education with the skills needed to become qualified Gaelic football and hurling instructors has been...
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Transfer of powers: legal question hangs over University of Law
Legal expert identifies ‘unclear’ structure of landmark in coalition policy. John Morgan reports
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THE podcast: David Miliband
Podcast Powered By PodbeanFormer foreign secretary and Labour MP David Miliband discusses the rationale behind his tour of UK universities, the importance of higher education institutions paying the...
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THE podcast: Carsten Maple
Podcast Powered By PodbeanCarsten Maple, director of the National Cyberstalking Centre at the University of Bedfordshire, and pro-vice chancellor of research and enterprise, discusses the impact and...
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Birthplace of Arab Spring, deathbed of academic freedom?
A dean’s legal battle has wider implications for Tunisia’s universities. Matthew Reisz writes
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Royal title for famous drama school
The Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, has been granted royal title by the Queen.
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Large drop in early university applications
The number of people applying to universities in the UK as part of the main applications cycle has fallen by 14 per cent compared with last year, new figures show.
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Canada's McGill University wins World University Rankings' video competition
One of the greatest strengths of the higher education world is its diversity - and this shone through in a competition asking filmmakers to describe what it is that makes their institution world...