Michael Costeloe, 1939-2011
"Infectious enthusiasm" for his subject and skill at spinning a yarn earned Michael Costeloe the respect and admiration of staff and students alike.Born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham on 12 March...
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Campus round-up
Keele UniversityCollaboration bears fruitA British university has awarded its first degrees to students in Malaysia. Keele University made the awards to more than 100 students in two ceremonies...
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Odds and quads
In 1894, a young Jewish artillery officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of betraying French military secrets to the Germans and sentenced to solitary confinement in French Guiana. It soon...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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13 October 2011
40 years ago today - A look back over four decades of ߣߣƵ
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Uwic leaves University of Wales and joins Met set
The University of Wales Institute Cardiff has become the latest institution to distance itself from the scandal-hit University of Wales.
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Visa scam means scram, minister tells University of Wales chair
The Welsh education minister has called for the chair of the council of the University of Wales, Hugh Thomas, to "consider his position" following last week’s revelations about a visa scam at a...
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Payback time could be delayed for part-time students
The government is to look again at proposals that could leave some part-time students repaying tuition fee loans while they are still studying.Following a hearing of the Education Bill in the House...
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Film review: POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
Duncan Wu doesn’t quite buy Morgan Spurlock’s less-than-burning questions about commercial sponsorship
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Not-so-dismal science: macroeconomists win Nobel Prize
Two American researchers will share the Nobel Prize in economics for their research into cause and effect in the macroeconomy. Thomas Sargent, William R. Berkley professor of economics and business...
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Inside Higher Ed: Occupied, dissatisfied
By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed
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Lettori pin hopes on meeting of ministerial minds
British lecturers fighting discriminatory employment practices at Italian universities have been cheered by a meeting on the issue between the countries’ two ministers for universities.
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Nafsa appeals to attorney general to protect right to education
The US attorney general has been asked by a senior higher education representative to intervene to tackle the “chilling effects” of anti-immigration laws at a state level.
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Labour appoints fresh face to replace John Denham
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has appointed former employment lawyer Chuka Umunna as the new shadow business secretary following a cabinet reshuffle today.