Shared IT provision promises major savings
Universities will be able to save large sums on their IT provision after an investment of £12.5 million in “cloud computing” by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
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Problems solved: Bahrain Polytechnic’s practical approach
It took a challenging and very special project to tempt John Scott, the former chief executive of the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, out of semi-retirement in his native New...
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UCU strike ballots delayed after typographical slip
Ballots for national strikes in higher education have been delayed after a union included a typographical error in the formal notice sent to universities.
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Cumbria chooses new v-c
The University of Cumbria has appointed a new vice-chancellor, following a period of turmoil in its leadership and finances.
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Guide to elite entry warns against ‘soft’ A levels
The Russell Group of large research-intensive universities has for the first time published a guide with advice on what A levels its institutions favour, suggesting that students should avoid more...
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UWE staff set to strike over jobs proposals
Union members at the University of the West of England are to strike over plans to cut jobs and make academics reapply for their positions.
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Hefce brings the pain: cuts this year and next
Universities in England face a £180 million, 4 per cent cut to their teaching grant in the next academic year, along with additional cuts this year.
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How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
A magisterial study of radical thought has blind spots that perplex an admiring Willy Maley
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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
Drowning in information, our predecessors stopped worrying and cut and pasted, says James Delbourgo
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Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire
Nicholas Thomas creates such a clear sense of these islands and their heterogeneous peoples as a pulsing, productive set of entities that it comes as a shock to look at the map in the front of the...
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The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World through Evolutionary Eyes
Darwin was a lucky tourist. He travelled widely for five years in the 1830s on board HMS Beagle, gathering data and specimens that enabled him to make spectacular scientific breakthroughs. He did not...
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Lessons Learned: Reflections of a University President
Sir Drummond Bone warms to a sensitive account of the pressures incurred in leading a university
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Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
For a long while now the idea that modernity comes into being partly by casting off the medieval - leaving behind childish and spiritual things, as it were - has been readily accepted as an...
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Migration and Empire
Between the end of the wars against Napoleon in 1815 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, some 50 million Europeans left for the New World. Almost two-fifths of these (more than 18...
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News in Brief
CanadaOnline institution goes offlineOne of the biggest names in private higher education is shutting its Canadian online university just two years after it began operations. The Apollo Group, the...