Furious FE bosses wage funding gap war
Further education heads have become embroiled in a war of funding statistics with government officials. The Association of Colleges has reacted angrily to briefing notes for MPs supplied by the...
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Oxford beats Cambridge to top Times table Oxford tops the annual Times university league table for the first time today, pipping Cambridge by a mere three points out of 1,000. Cambridge had headed...
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AUT votes to boycott RAE The Association of University Teachers has voted to boycott the 2006 research assessment exercise. Delegates to the AUT’s summer council in Eastbourne agreed that they were...
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You're paid too little - even your employers agree
All academics have taken a decision that there is more to life than money. But this week's comprehensive survey from the Universities and Colleges Employers Association suggests that their goodwill...
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BBSRC takes hard line with applications
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council is tightening its application procedures to ease the workload on its staff and the associated peer-review panels and referees. Currently, 40...
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NUS quits talk over race-hate speaker
The National Union of Students has pulled out of a seminar tomorrow at the London School of Economics because it refuses to share a platform with one of the speakers. The seminar will examine new...
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Swiss cheese and Holocaust
The Invasion Handbook
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Bitten by the moral bulldog
Unsanctifying Human Life
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Leading light in constructing the glorious 50
Hawksmoor's London Churches
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Giving birth to a new community
Children of Colonialism
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Search for an 'ism' in shamanic traditions
Shamans Through Time
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Battling British: Boudicca et al
The Oxford Companion to Military History - Warrior Race
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by an English opium addict: "I here present you, courteous reader, with the record of a...
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Truth isn't everything
Multiethnic Japan