New age of reason
The Enlightenment goes online this week thanks to a new service that allows academics electronic access to 138,000 works published between 1701 and 1800. Among the 18th-century's literary and...
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What impresses today's freshers?
A survey asked 10,000-plus first-years what they thought of their university - with surprising results. Paul Hill reports A fresh insight into what impresses student applicants and influences their...
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Strathclyde: best overall
The rivalry between the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow is legendary, but when Edinburgh pupil Sareta Puri announced that she wanted to study accountancy, her school careers service advised her to...
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Warwick: best campus
First-year law student Kayode Sodeinde (pictured right) thinks Warwick University's place as students' favourite campus is well deserved. Warwick pipped Oxford, Loughborough, Birmingham and...
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Bangor: most helpful administration
A personal touch in the admissions system wins the plaudits of students at the University of Wales, Bangor. Bangor's rating puts it at the top of the list of universities perceived by students to...
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Africa to share vision with G8
The president of Tanzania, Benjamin Mkapa, is to press other African heads of state to appeal for G8 involvement in revitalising Africa's universities in an address at this month's African Union...
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'Fossilised' institute faces rejig
Europe's largest research institution, France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), faces its biggest reorganisation since it was established more than 65 years ago. Bernard...
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India to raise global profile
Members of the Indian Civil Service were known as "heaven born" in the time of the Raj - once in, nothing was beyond the reach of this privileged class. Today, the term is applied to graduates of the...
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China goes fishing for more undergraduates - in Egypt
China and Egypt have agreed to set up a university in Cairo with classes taught almost entirely in Chinese. The Egyptian Chinese University (ECU), the first institute of its kind in the Middle East,...
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Research fund risk in Europe budget wrangle
The European Parliament last week voted overwhelmingly to back European Commission plans to double the Seventh Framework Programme's budget. The move came amid appeals from Europe's universities to...
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Melbourne's private affair ends in red ink
ߣߣÊÓƵ's first private university set up by a public institution is to close after eight years and losses of at least A$20 million (£8.4 million). When Alan Gilbert, the University of Melbourne's...
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Patriot game theory
The academic and Swiss national whose US visa was revoked after he was appointed to a faculty post in the US last autumn had his chance to address his peers last weekend. Tariq Ramadan spoke at the...
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All change by degrees in Sweden
Swedish Education Minister Leif Pagrotsky has announced major changes to the country's degree structure after last month's meeting of European education ministers in Bergen, Norway, writes Jon...
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If it affects students, it matters to the academy
Teaching and research are integral to higher education, which must refocus on the student, says Paul Ramsden The opening of the Higher Education Academy building in York next Tuesday by Bill Rammell...
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Nancy Rothwell
Explaining science to the public can be rewarding and valuable, but don't expect an easy ride - especially from the kids Communication with the public about scientific issues was once largely a hobby...