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Campus round-up
University of WarwickPlaces of powerAn international research project investigating centres of world influence is to be led by an English university that has been awarded EUR8 million (£6.8 million)...
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Odds and quads
This watercolour of the medical kit owned by the great Victorian missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-73) was painted shortly after his death in what is now Zambia.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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3 March 2011
Seven brains are better than two - Former education ministers offer a little advice to David Willetts
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UCU vote means 63 universities face strikes
Sixty-three of the UK’s most prestigious universities face strikes over changes to pensions after members of the University and College Union backed stoppages.
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Voices of protest under the dreaming spires
A formal campaign against the government’s higher education reforms is to be set up at the University of Oxford.
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Exeter goes to the top of the cap
The University of Exeter, which is led by Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, plans to set undergraduate tuition fees at £9,000 a year, the maximum allowed.
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Bloody mess: LSE’s rearguard action against Libyan links continues
Tainted money, allegations of plagiarism and surrender to the demands of angry student occupiers: the London School of Economics’ links to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Mu’ammer...
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Hefce reduces points of impact in REF
The weighting given to impact in the first research excellence framework will be less than originally envisaged, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has confirmed.
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Gloucestershire turns to BIS for new v-c
The University of Gloucestershire has appointed a senior official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills as its new vice-chancellor.
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Inside Higher Ed: College suspends courses by gay priest
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Painful legacy: US academy confronts slave-holding past
On the northern edge of the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a statue of a Confederate soldier stands sentry, rifle at the ready. Given to the university in 1913 by the...
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Competition will be Willetts’ fee fighter
To keep prices down, loans will be extended to private-sector students and caps on places will be loosened, but minister wants more time to prepare White Paper
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Hefce likely to lessen the impact
Research “impact” will count for less than the proposed 25 per cent in the research excellence framework, funding chiefs are expected to confirm next week.