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Lancaster institute to close Lancaster University’s senate has voted to discontinue the Institute for English Language Education. A spokeswoman said some of the institute’s work would be transferred...
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A demand to supply sex appeal
Economics is not cool despite its salary spin-off. Huw Dixon argues for a makeover. The British used to dominate economics: from Adam Smith and David Ricardo 200 years ago to John Maynard Keynes and...
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A theoretical blow for democracy
Terry Eagleton is Britain's left-leaning high priest of literary theory. Helen Davies talks to him Students often approach Terry Eagleton and say that they have read his book. Although he has...
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Copyright, corporates and cyber publishing
John Davies looks back on some 25 years in the world of academic publishing. "Publishers are neither philanthropists nor rogues. Nor are they usually lordly magnates or cringing beggars. As a general...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
For most of the 20th century, climate was regarded as a constant boundary condition of modern society. On time scales that mattered for human decision-making, the prevailing convention was that...
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Next week
NEWS How universities and the National Health Service can work together. FEATURES Patrick Dixon talks about what it is like to live in a cyberbubble in the year 2010. BOOKS On the edge: a...
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For the record
Two London geography departments to merge The geography departments at the School of Oriental and African Studies and King's College London are to merge. The institutions are preparing to sign an...
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A-level rejig is key to application overhaul
Major changes to the university applications process came a step closer this week after the results of a consultation on the school year. Consultation by the Local Government Association has found...
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Student applications are on the up but no gains for capital
A slight recovery in the number of people applying for university or college was announced today. Figures released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service showed a 1.1 per cent increase...
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Editor calls for a tobacco-funding debate
A national debate is needed on the wider implications of the row over Nottingham University's acceptance of tobacco industry money, according to Richard Smith, editor of the British Medical Journal...
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London faces mass academic job losses
Up to 1,000 job losses are on the cards in London's higher education institutions. Redundancies are planned or have taken place at new and old universities including South Bank, Greenwich, East...
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Whistleblowers: Ejecting don under fire
Denis Galligan, the Oxford don at the centre of a row over his decision to have an international scholar ejected from university premises, was already facing complaints about aggressive behaviour...
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No strings on extra staff pay
It will be up to individual universities to determine how they spend their share of the £330 million awarded for staff pay structures over the next three years, the government has confirmed. As part...
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Tarnished classics
Inspectors have delivered a stinging critique of Leeds University's classics department, warning that its traditional teaching methods are alienating students .The Quality Assurance Agency narrowly...
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Union: RAE lies skew funding
Public funding for research will be wrongly allocated "on a massive scale" because universities have falsified their submissions to the research assessment exercise, lecturers have claimed. Lecturers...