UUK plans consultation on admissions system
A new consultation on a post-qualification admissions system is being planned by Universities UK in response to the Local Government Authority's call earlier this month for the school year to be...
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No English, no problem, for Bradford students
Bradford University will be able to recruit non-English speaking international students next term as part of a pioneering new language programme. The International Foundation Programme means the...
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Why I... believe we should not look to nature for moral guidance
Olivia Judson is a research fellow Imperial College London. In 1853, the Reverend Francis Morris urged everyone to imitate the virtuous, humble behaviour of the dunnock, a small brown bird that lives...
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Scientists draft wasps into war on weevils
Scientists are enlisting the help of a parasitic wasp in a bid to stop the pine weevil destroying £4 million of top-quality timber trees every year. The team from the University of Ulster has...
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Chester hopes merger will bring new status
Chester College of Higher Education will take over Warrington Collegiate Institute's 900 higher education students. Chester College, founded in 1839 as the first Church of England college, is a...
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Fees for the finder
A Brazilian businessman who lost more than £13,000 cash told the student who returned it that he could have anything he wanted.  Ismael Joao da Silva found the money inside three envelopes on one of...
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Essex girl goes for PhD
Tracy Playle, the Essex girl who claimed she was ridiculed about her background and accent by a Cambridge University interviewer when she applied for a place at Trinity College, is to return to...
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Had a wizard time
New Zealand's official wizard - a former sociology lecturer at the University of New South Wales - is retiring as he approaches his 70th birthday. Ian Brackenbury Channell was made wizard of...
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Don's diary: Filming Shanghai boom
Tuesday Below a fog of pollution and moisture, the Beijing summer is in full swing. We are on our way to shoot Shanghai Boom , the video for an Open University interdisciplinary course on the...
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In the news: Chris Higgins
World leaders at the Earth summit in Johannesburg heard yesterday from a trustee of Future Harvest UK, a charity that aims to understand how to feed the world while preserving its fragile environment...
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The benefits of bringing your husband to work
It's timwe for universities to recognise the needs of academic couples, say Phyllis Moen and Stephen Sweet. In the US and the UK, two in three couples with a child under the age of six are in dual-...
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Child trade on rise, study finds
International trafficking of children for adoption has reached unprecedented levels and will continue to rise, an academic study says. More than 32,000 infants, far more than previously thought,...
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NI celebrations mark students' peace efforts
Students and academics in Northern Ireland are celebrating the 30th anniversary of a unique partnership in which students led the fight against sectarianism. As the province erupted in violence in...
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Cambridge building Eden in the east
A decade after it seemed to be wilting as funding dried up, Cambridge Botanic Garden has marked its return to rude health with the unveiling of plans for a £16 million visitor centre, writes Steve...
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The Soviet Himmler
Beria; My Father