Treasure trove
Victorian explorer David Livingstone's drawing of a fish found in Lake Nyassa, which he reached in 1859 on his Zambezi Expedition, is one of 150,000 items in the John Murray archive. The collection,...
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Colleges to gain more autonomy
More higher education is to be provided by further education colleges with greater independence from universities, the Government signalled this week. A national review is to be conducted, which...
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Anxious heads wrangle over RAE
Last week's Budget surprise has stirred panic and split opinion among v-cs. The Times Higher investigates how the future of funding could pan out When officials at the Department for Education and...
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Funds merged to stop R&D money being 'diverted'
Last week's Budget surprise has stirred panic and split opinion among v-cs. The Times Higher investigates how the future of funding could pan out Treasury plans to merge all public funding for UK...
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What will be yardstick for success?
Last week's Budget surprise has stirred panic and split opinion among v-cs. The Times Higher investigates how the future of funding could pan out Farewell RAE, welcome RAM. A few words from the...
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Death knell for Pparc brings mixed feelings
Last week's Budget surprise has stirred panic and split opinion among v-cs. The Times Higher investigates how the future of funding could pan out The proposed abolition of the Particle Physics and...
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Protests over US visa politics
The Bush Administration is under fire for a marked increase in the number of academics who have been denied visas to travel to the US, purportedly on national security grounds. A visa for a Bolivian...
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Private sector booms
ߣߣÊÓƵ's public universities face increased competition from a growing number of private institutions offering degree and diploma courses. Glyn Davis, chair of the Group of Eight research-...
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Détente for genocide controversy
Academics have agreed to a unique co-operation over the issue of Turkey's genocide against its Armenian population. The proposal to bring together historians on both sides of the debate was made at a...
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Student arrests
Most of the pro-democracy protesters arrested by Belarusian police in Minsk last week were students - and several were relatives of leading opponents of President Alaksandr Lukashenka. The protesters...
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Italy's corruption consensus
Italy's political parties are divided in the run-up to next month's general elections on almost every issue. But they do agree that the country's universities and research base are underfinanced,...
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Epic landscapes providea hot place for research
The national universities of Iceland and of Cyprus are both emblematic of countries with a rich heritage and an active engagement with the wider world, says Alan Osborn A fascination for Iceland has...
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Academic citadel at cultural crossroads
The national universities of Iceland and of Cyprus are both emblematic of countries with a rich heritage and an active engagement with the wider world, says Alan Osborn There is room for only three...
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Wizards will replace the witch with a worse evil
Ding-dong the RAE's gone, but malevolent mandarins are unleashing an even darker force, says John Sutherland There are university teachers in mid-career whose entire working lives have passed under...
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Nancy Rothwell
Public revelations of fraud or fabrication of data always attract much attention in the scientific press. This is followed by great angst and detailed examination by the institutions that employ the...