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Letters and documents relating to the guardianship at Tutbury Castle of Mary, Queen of Scots - which include four signed by Queen Elizabeth I - are among a collection of rare books and manuscripts...
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Brown 'puff' fails to impress Scots
Scotland's business academics are politely sceptical about Chancellor Gordon Brown's surprise announcement of plans for a top business school in Dunfermline. Mr Brown, who was launching Labour's...
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Gëzim Alpion: Speaking for the refugee in us all
Gëzim Alpion playwright and lecturer in media studies Immigrants are all too often seen as a threat and that worries Gëzim Alpion. It bothers the senior lecturer in media studies at...
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Finance graduate devises new way for Scots to compete without top-up fees
A Scottish think-tank believes universities could solve their funding problems and boost their quality if they were funded through a pledged proportion of their students' future earnings. There are...
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George reveals how to make cut
Fashion entrepreneur George Davies, the man behind the hugely popular George at Asda clothing range, has a new venture in the shape of George at Heriot-Watt, writes Olga Wojtas. Mr Davies, who also...
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'Vile' attack on Natfhe leader
The battle over the leadership of the forthcoming academic super-union took a bitter turn this week as an anonymous circular attacking the politics of prospective general secretary Paul Mackney...
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Aggrieved student takes files to the net
A law student whose complaints about the quality of his course won him a landmark £30,000 financial settlement from Wolverhampton University has launched a trio of websites for students and parents...
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Yesterday
Previously unseen images of The Beatles, taken in 1965 and found two years ago in a Dundee University archive, have been published in a limited edition book, Now These Days Are Gone . The pictures...
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Prestige doesn't guarantee gains in fundraising, but asking will help
There is no clear link between successful fundraising and the age or size of a university, according to preliminary findings from a major report of philanthropic giving to higher education. There is...
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Scholar says boycotting Israel will not help restore Palestinian rights
Academic boycotts of Israel would threaten the restoration of Palestinian rights, a Palestinian academic told an international conference at one of the two universities at the centre of last year's...
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A first-class metrics war
Proposed changes aimed at clarifying a classification system for universities have caused upset among status-minded campuses. The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education...
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Lack of savoir plaire
France's policies for attracting and catering for foreign students lag behind those of its main competitors, says a report issued last week by the Conseil Economique et Social. Although France...
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Funding cuts hit Aboriginal enrolments
ߣߣÊÓƵ's indigenous students, already underrepresented in the nation's universities, are falling further behind white ߣߣÊÓƵns. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island students comprise less than 1...
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Academy probes its Nazi past
German universities are confronting their National Socialist past with projects that include finally reinstating academic titles stripped during the Third Reich. Research has shown that many...
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So long, guesswork
The European University Association has called on higher education institutions to improve their accounting procedures after the European Commission proposed they could recover audited indirect costs...