A hot collaboration
Students on a professional writing course at University College Falmouth have worked with a local newspaper, the Falmouth Packet , to produce a four-page climate-change special. The supplement, with...
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Correction
Mary Rose is based at Lancaster University and not Glamorgan University as we said in "Innovative Glamorgan" ( The Times Higher , April ). Professor Rose, of the Institute for Entrepreneurship and...
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Fighting cybercrime
The University of East London has set up the first internet portal for the reporting and analysis of cybercrime across Europe. Victims of Internet Crime Europe (Voice) is the idea of Hamid Jahankhani...
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Modern Irish on offer
Modern Irish has become the newest subject on offer at Cambridge University. The Irish Government is funding classes in modern Irish at Cambridge to commemorate it becoming the 23rd working language...
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Switched-on project
Researchers at Manchester University have joined forces with Dialight Lumidrives - founded by a former student - to develop powerful low-cost LED lighting modules that can provide community-friendly...
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Relaunch for KCL
King's College London has relaunched its commercial development and research support company under a new name. KCL Enterprises Ltd is now King's College London Business Ltd. The company will provide...
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Ecotourism's downside
Ecotourism may, in some cases, have a negative impact on the future of rural communities in developing countries, according to Jim Butcher from Canterbury Christ Church University. In his new book,...
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Mental health event
The Daksha & Freya Emson Third Annual Perinatal Mental Health Conference is to be held at Anglia Ruskin University Rivermead Campus on July 6 in collaboration with North Essex Mental Health...
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Correction
In "Queensland settles on creative preference" (May 4) it was stated that the Queensland University of Technology was poised to scrap its bachelor of sciences degrees. This is not the case. The...
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Pay bias persists as change is 'too slow'
Union welcomes narrowing of wage gap but calls for more action. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Author sorry for uncredited debt
An historian apologises for failing to acknowledge his former tutor's contributions to book, writes Phil Baty One of the most rewarding things about being an academic is seeing a student protege...
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Ben Wilson's inspiration from his former tutor, Vic Gatrell: the themes and motifs
* Gatrell's course included a detailed handout of several dozen lecture slides, entitled: "The Age of Cant: The reformation of manners and the domestication of humour, 1790 to 1840." Wilson's book is...
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Fury over kickback allegation
Administrators in the US are embroiled in a student loans scandal that has rocked the nation. Jon Marcus reports When cash-strapped students entering Johns Hopkins University this year needed private...
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World Encompassed
No 'legal duty' to prevent student harm In a precedent-setting case, a US court has ruled that the father of a student who died of an apparent heroin overdose cannot bring a negligence suit against...
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My career is being killed by blind bureaucracy
An academic facing dismissal after a 'spreadsheet appraisal' calls for more human, not automated, management A curt e-mail, cold in tone, gave me short notice to meet with my boss. It could only be...