First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a writer admired by Graham Greene who had unconventional views and an unconventional life: "To the as-...
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Overseas Conference Grants
Deadline: 15/08/2007
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Medical Humanities University Awards
Deadline: 01/08/2007
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New tests will probe employee suitability
Academics seeking promotion could soon be vetted for personality traits as well as experience. Phil Baty reports Academics could be subjected to controversial "personality testing" before being...
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An orgy of rude words defeats web police
"Orgy", "fetish", "nude" and "erotic" are among the words featuring in internet addresses visited by staff and students at Strathclyde University, writes Phil Baty. But rather than reflecting a...
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Nurse teachers face axe after health budget rejig
University staff are paying the price for decisions by strategic health authorities to cut investment in training and divert cash elsewhere. Melanie Newman reports Universities are being forced to...
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Degree mills bank on allure of UK names
British-sounding names and accents are still favourites among institutions that offer fake degrees, according to a former FBI investigator, writes Melanie Newman. Allan Ezell, who ran the bureau's...
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Entrepreneurial scientist who loves saving energy
Profile: Ravi Silva, Director, Advanced Technology Institute, Surrey University "I might have to interrupt our interview this morning to sign some papers on a deal. The lawyers are waiting," says...
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UK urged to exploit inventive talents
The UK risks losing university innovations to the Far East because it lacks a coherent strategy for bringing ideas to market, claims one of the country's foremost electronics experts, writes Melanie...
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Mugabe in court
Edinburgh University's court is next month expected to debate stripping Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe of the honorary degree he was awarded in 1984. Students have for many years called for the...
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Imams not at fault
An Aberdeen University researcher is challenging the claim that Muslims are radicalised by imams while in prison. Gabriele Marranci, a lecturer in the anthropology of religion, interviewed more than...
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High cost of reading
A study examining trends in journals pricing between 2000 and 2006 has been released by the Library and Information Statistics Unit, based at Loughborough University. The report updates data from a...
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Collegiate climb
Hughes Hall, Cambridge, has become a full college of Cambridge University 121 years after it was founded. The college began life in 1885 as the Cambridge Training College for Women as part of an...
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Can we talk freely?
Leading international law experts are to meet in Cambridge University this month to look at what happens when freedom of speech crosses the boundary with extremism and racial hatred. The conference,...
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Improving access
Numbers of disabled students in higher education have increased by just over two thirds in five years, according to figures released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. In total, 137...