TV reviews: Colouring Light: Brain Clarke - An Artist Apart & Faster than the Speed of Light?
Experiments with light can astound and delight us aesthetically and intellectually, says Gary Day
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Mike Smith, 1945-2011
A "hugely respected" academic administrator with a pan-European outlook has died.Mike Smith was born in London on 16 February 1945 and educated at the University of Cambridge and the London School of...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Campus round-up
University of ReadingRough guide to rough tradesThose who want to learn more about the work of City traders are being offered a three-day introductory course on the subject by a university business...
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Odds and quads
Most stained-glass windows feature scenes from the Bible or the lives of saints.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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27 October 2011
Dumbstruck - The challenge of teaching in a blinkered and self-centred culture
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Coalition’s silence on postgraduate questions ‘deafening'
The vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge has offered a robust defence of research as “inherent to the very fibre of a university” and bemoaned the “deafening” silence from government over...
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Support package sweetened for part-time students
Part-time students are to be given an extra year of grace before they become eligible to start repaying tuition fee loans after the government agreed to changes that had been put forward by the...
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Lords announce inquiry into European higher education
A cross-party committee of peers in the House of Lords is to investigate how the European Union can help higher education across the continent to boost jobs, growth and innovation.
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Inside Higher Ed: Do faculty strikes work?
By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
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Public investment in education to decline to 1950s levels
The 40 per cent reduction in public spending on universities over the next four years will help contribute to the biggest fall in education spending over such a period since the 1950s, a respected...
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Early Ucas data shows 9 per cent fall in 2012 applications
The first set of figures on university applications for 2012 entry, when the fee cap rises to £9,000, shows a 9 per cent fall compared to the same time last year.
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Willetts: ‘REF will take no notice of where researchers publish’
Researchers should not feel obliged to pursue research favoured by prestigious journals, David Willetts has said.
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Council chair steps down as University of Wales announces end to charter
The chair of the council of the University of Wales has stepped down after the education minister called for him to consider his position.