Lib Dems top on campus
The Liberal Democrats have strengthened their grip on the campus vote, according to a new poll for The Times Higher , writes Paul Hill. The poll of 1,031 students at 103 universities and colleges -...
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Confusion reigns for Welsh voters
Devolution in Wales has muddied the political waters and may affect the way academics, students and the general population vote in the forthcoming election. Academics and student leaders agree that...
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Labour losses may see fees scrapped
Top-up fees in England may be axed if Labour's majority is slashed in the forthcoming general election, according to the Universities Scotland organisation. The umbrella body for Scottish principals...
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Matthew, Mark, Luke Skywalker and, er, John
It is not every day that one meets a theologian who is also a theoretical astrophysicist and an expert in the spirituality of Star Wars films to boot, but then David Wilkinson is no ordinary academic...
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Japan gives official seal of approval to offshore US campus
Japan has recognised its first full offshore campus of a foreign university amid sustained pressure from the US for liberalised trade and investment in the Japanese education and health sectors. Last...
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Funding threat to sports prowess
ߣߣÊÓƵ's sporting greats have joined vice-chancellors and student groups in attacking the Federal Government's plans to ban compulsory membership of student unions. Under so-called voluntary...
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Scandal 'will not be last'
The secretary-general of Thailand's Education Council has been cleared of leaking university exam papers but found guilty of breaching procedures by opening sealed boxes before they were distributed...
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Summers digs in his heels as gender row spreads to Yale
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, has vowed to stay on, backed by the university's trustees, in spite of a vote of no confidence by the professors who work for him. The furore...
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New management for troubled Paris institute
A new board of directors has been elected to run Paris's troubled Pasteur Institute after the previous board resigned en masse in January amid a management crisis. Four state-appointed members remain...
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It's Einstein a go-go for Disney toy range
Disney last week clinched a $2.7 million (£1.4 million) deal with the Hebrew University for the rights to use the image of Albert Einstein in its "Baby Einstein" range of toys. Einstein, who was a...
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President's bid to stay at Cork moves a step closer
The president of University College, Cork, has won the latest stage in his two-year battle to remain in office after his 65th birthday in May. Cork's governing body voted by twenty-five to nine to...
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Trafficking law 'will curb study abroad'
A clampdown on white slavery by Aleksandr Lukashenko, the President of Belarusia, includes a requirement for foreign university recruitment agencies to register with the authorities. The order, which...
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It's time to consider the great unmentionable
Entire universities should be allowed to fail and close for the greater good of the sector, says Paul Ormerod Failure is the most fundamental feature of both biological systems and human social and...
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Peep's diary
Future masters of spin? No, it's not the vice-chancellor's new motor. If you see a gleaming Aston Martin parked on campus it probably means that the Tories' higher education spokesman is paying a...
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Cambridge science festival
Fizzes and bangs on their own cannot substitute for fabulous storytelling CAMBRIDGE SCIENCE FESTIVAL March 16-23 All over Britain, billboards and flyers are advertising events under the National...