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News Borderless future for Britain's universities Features No more exotic: Jeremy MacClancy, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Alex De Waal debate the changing face of anthropology Stressed out? David...
News Borderless future for Britain's universities Features No more exotic: Jeremy MacClancy, Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Alex De Waal debate the changing face of anthropology Stressed out? David...
The percentage of women in Scottish higher education has risen in the past ten years, the Scottish Executive has said. In 1989-90, 44 per cent of students were female. This rose to 55 per cent by...
The Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education had to close for a day when a gang threatened students after four nights of rioting in the city. The gang burst into the Tower Street section of...
The breadth and status of geography is in danger of being undermined as universities restructure their disciplines and faculties, the president of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British...
The government has doubled the number of scientific attaches in British embassies and expanded the International Technology Service to try to foster more collaboration between UK business and foreign...
British institutions must be dynamic and responsive to the global market, higher education minister Margaret Hodge will tell a conference on the future of higher education today. Ms Hodge will say: "...
The e-university - now called UK eUniversities Worldwide - has received more than 65 partnership proposals from 28 institutions to provide online degrees. It says it is on track to launch its first...
British universities narrowly escaped isolation from the internet as one of the Janet network's suppliers went into liquidation. Janet's holding company, the United Kingdom Education and Research...
A £50,000 teaching fellowship sounds great, writes Pat Leon, unless it wrecks your RAE status and alienates colleagues Twenty "star" lecturers will join the growing fellowship of national teaching-...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from a work by a well-travelled anthropologist: "I hate travelling and explorers." The winner receives a...
Abraham Lincoln and the Forge of National Memory - Race and Reunion
Crucible of War
The American Revolution
A Great Civil War
Comic Book Nation