TV review: The Mrs Bradley Mysteries: The Rising of the Moon
Adela Bradley, a glamorous, more saucy version of Miss Marple, is brought vividly to life, says Gary Day
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Don Varley, 1924-2012
For more than 40 years, Don Varley was a key member of the academic and student community at the University of Nottingham, as a senior lecturer, vice-dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences,...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
Queen Mary, University of LondonRising in the EastA £36 million graduate centre is to be built after being given the go-ahead by planners. Set to open in 2015, the centre at Queen Mary, University of...
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23 February 2012
Top-up credits - Open courseware and the challenge to traditional campus education
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The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan, by George Steiner
Tom Palaima lauds a reflection on the millennia-old struggle to express original ideas through language
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UK is citation sensation in physics
The quality of US physics has been surpassed by that of both Canada and the UK over the past decade, new analysis commissioned by the Institute of Physics suggests.
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Promote a benign state of mind, peacekeeper urges global academy
Universities must foster in their students the “benevolent and amiable temper of mind” defined by the novelist Henry Fielding, a leading international peacekeeper told the Association of...
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Inside Higher Ed: Attack of the memes
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
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Cable holds firm to appoint Ebdon
Les Ebdon has been formally appointed as the new director of fair access, with business secretary Vince Cable telling the parliamentary committee that rejected him there were no “new, relevant facts...
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Private firm extends student accommodation empire
A private company that specialises in long-term multi-million pound deals to build and run student facilities has extended its reach in the sector with a new £57.2 million contract with Nottingham...
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UUK fails in bid for amendment to FoI Act
The government has rejected calls for an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act that would specifically exempt pre-publication research data from release.
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Legal challenge to fees hike fails
Two teenagers have lost their legal battle against the increase in tuition fees this year.
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‘Consensus statement’ on research integrity released
The UK Research Integrity Office has welcomed calls for it to be placed at the centre of a toughened research integrity oversight regime in the UK.
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Payback time as Tories win student loans concession
Students will not be penalised for paying back their tuition fees early, the government has indicated.