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My reading of Felipe Fernández-Armesto's excellent piece on university mottoes ("Playing to win at Latin tag", 1 March) coincided with the landing on my desk of the annual report of a prominent...
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Is it getting hot in here?
Here is proof that a general knowledge entrance examination for all prospective university students is sorely needed. A colleague of mine at another institution has just marked a first-year essay...
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Augusto Gansser, 1910-2012
According to science journalist Simone Ulmer, Augusto Gansser was "one of the last true adventurers who made his passion his profession".The geologist, researcher, teacher and explorer studied at the...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
Birmingham City UniversityHipsters can, and should, dig itThe relationship between urban areas and the countryside must be reconfigured, according to researchers at Birmingham City University. An...
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15 March 2012
The nature of nurture - How the past shows the way to a healthy human future
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Women and children first
For decades the science of child-rearing was guided by patriarchal ideas, but now the cradle rocks to an older rhythm. Eric Michael Johnson, in conversation with eminent evolutionary biologists Sarah...
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‘Record’ boost to EPSRC doctoral grants
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is to invest a record amount of money into its doctoral training grants in 2012-13.
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Funding bodies push for team effort on bids
Researchers are being “strongly encouraged” by state-sponsored funding bodies to consider whether their bids could be strengthened by collaborating with other groups and institutions.
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Students walk out over university policy
Students are taking part in a national walkout at campuses across the UK today as part of a “week of action” calling on the government and universities to “come clean” on their plans for higher...
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Overseas student numbers ‘to rise by 30,000’
Overseas student numbers are set to rise by 10 per cent over the next decade, a British Council study has said.
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Thomson Reuters announces launch of third annual Academic Reputation Survey
Over 200,000 academics are currently being invited to provide their expert opinion for the world’s biggest survey of university reputations.
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Russell Group expansion leaves 1994 Group short
The universities of Durham, Exeter, York and Queen Mary, University of London, have joined the Russell Group, it has been announced.
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Inside Higher Ed: No kidding: birth control and college completion
By Paul Fain, for Inside Higher Ed
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Hefce still cautious despite ‘record’ surpluses for universities
Measures of the financial health of universities are the “best on record” but the sector faces “a large degree of uncertainty” in future, according to England’s funding council.