First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a classic, elegantly written work about a personal journey that explores the ethics, theology and...
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A soupcon of toxins
Death in the Pot
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A scientific amuse-gueule
Kitchen Mysteries
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The beauty of keeping hot and cold in the balance
Four Laws that Drive the Universe
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Bowling to the far left of the boundary
C. L. R. James
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Libraries dump 2m volumes
A rush to liberate space for e-learning suites is blamed for disposal of printed material. Rebecca Attwood reports. Universities dispose of more than 1.8 million books and journals a year, according...
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Northants freezes pay after job review
Some professors at Northampton University have had their pay frozen after a formal evaluation found that they were not meeting expectations for their roles. Ann Tate, Northampton vice-chancellor,...
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'I'm conscious of making a cultural move so I'm learning as much as
The former City businessman is acclimatising to his role as dean of Teeside University Business School. Though he may be from the new generation of university leaders recruited from business,...
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On the move ..
Christopher Day has been appointed head of Newcastle University's faculty of medical sciences, from April 2008. He will succeed Oliver James, who had previously announced his intention to retire....
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UCU agrees to joint pay talks
Special conference says 'yes' to employer demand - but with caveats. Melanie Newman reports. The University and College Union has abandoned its long-held opposition to negotiating academics' pay...
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Welsh vice-chancellors cry foul over inadequate funding deal
The Welsh higher education budget has left universities in the principality with a multimillion-pound funding gap that could leave them unable to compete with England, it was warned this week. Andrew...
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Cancer survivor gets apology off 'eejit' professor
"Wrong and witless", "ham-fisted" and an "academic eejit". These are not descriptions usually applied to Steven Connor, writer, critic and broadcaster, and professor of modern literature and theory...
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Lampeter on notice over management
Quality chiefs have ordered "essential" reforms to improve managers' oversight of standards at the University of Wales Lampeter, writes Melanie Newman . The Quality Assurance Agency found during an...
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Match funding sparks furore
Universities are at loggerheads over how £200 million promised to the sector to encourage private philanthropic giving should be carved up by the Government, writes Zoe Corbyn . The Government...
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Diploma plan criticised
The Government's planned new diplomas will "suffer in the shadow of A levels" unless all qualifications for 14-19 year-olds are brought within a single framework, a report warns this week. Academics...