University of Nottingham - Studio slump
The once-pioneering UK recording studio sector is dying, largely thanks to the destabilising economic effect of software. Research at the University of Nottingham suggests that the progressive...
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University of Edinburgh - Structure overhaul
The academic governance structure at the University of Edinburgh has been overhauled. It has set up new committees to replace the old academic policy, senatus undergraduate, postgraduate studies and...
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Tip of the iceberg
A gigantic glacier, twice the size of Scotland, is thinning at record pace, scientists have warned. The Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica is shrinking four times as fast as it was ten years ago...
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Original features
Standing at the entrance to the Queensgate Campus, the University of Huddersfield's new creative arts building opened last year and has already established itself as a landmark on the ring road...
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From the sublime to the sustainable, and back again
Some have odd titles, but many debates at the RGS conference are deadly serious, writes Matthew Reisz
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Those who can, get a PhD; those who can't, simply teach anyway
THE readers debate the thorny issue of minimum requirement for academics. Ciaran Jones listens in
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So, what's the big idea?
Academics are being invited to draw up a list of large facilities they would like to see built. Zoë Corbyn reports
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Grant winners
Economic and Social Research CouncilA total of £1.5 million is to be provided to nine projects that will conduct research into innovative services, products, processes and business models with the...
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Beyond the here and now
Dianne Berry says the HE framework must account for the future potential of universities, not just their current work
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Business could be just what we need to cut through the red tape
Jon F. Baldwin argues that incorporating universities into BIS may lead to a recognition of the real export value of the sector
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The week in higher education
Credit: Nick NewmanThe A-level results released on 20 August were better than ever, for the th year in a row, with a pass rate of 97.5 per cent and more than one in four grades an A. Commentators...
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League tables should be replaced, says v-c
Chris Brink calls for quality profiling as Mandelson ponders spidergrams, writes Melanie Newman
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Superheroes too self-absorbed to lead in current climate
Flamboyant, arrogant vice-chancellors who are initially perceived as "heroic" or "visionary" may end up damaging their universities in the long term.A study by Malcolm Higgs, professor of human...
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Half of all clearing places snapped up within four days
University places offered through clearing have filled in record time amid the "biggest ever" squeeze on university applications.Of the estimated 22,000 places in clearing this summer, about half -...
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Paper binned after backlash over 'feathering nests' claim
Executives' document criticises 'talking shops' and 'avoiding responsibility'. Zoë Corbyn reports