Wellbeing moves up the student retention agenda
More funding must go into student services if institutions are to retain the students they attract to meet government targets, according to vice-chancellor of Greenwich University Rick Trainor....
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UK loses out to US biotech spin-offs
Venture capitalists would rather back US biotechnology spin-off companies than those from the UK because university technology-transfer offices in the UK fail to market them well enough. This is the...
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Whistleblowers: Queen Mary accused of ignoring misconduct
London University's Queen Mary College failed to act over an allegation of scientific misconduct made by a member of its staff about a colleague, according to documents leaked to The THES this week....
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Key subjects face cash crisis under Hefce plans
Subjects that are vital to the economy could be seriously damaged by changes in the way the funding council pays for teaching in universities, subject leaders and employers warned this week. Leaders...
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Brunel is first with wireless network
Brunel is claiming to be the first UK university to converge all its telephone and computer connections into a single network that will use the internet to communicate. The system - worth about £1...
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Trojan horse is good bet for all
Strategies to improve flexibility for disabled students could benefit everyone, says Mick Healey. Four years ago I knew nothing about teaching disabled students or the difficulties they faced,...
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Teaching: on the front line
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: Clare Mar-Molinero. Age: 54 Job: Reader in Spanish and, until August, head of School of Modern Languages,...
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Culture and politics in a global cooking pot
Agri-Culture - Safe Food
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Subtle origins of Indo-China
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
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The Cantabrigian tales
The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 5 - Masters of Theory
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the memoirs of a living statesman: "Apart from life, a strong constitution and an abiding connection...
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Mad reveries find notoriety in limbo
Strange Matters
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Heavenly body count
Planetary Science
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Long on formulae, short on insight
Photonics
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A highly explosive discovery that emerged from banning the bomb
The Biggest Bangs