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Unions link for learning The first trade union lifelong learning alliance, spanning schools, colleges and universities will be created today with the signing of a partnership agreement between two...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN Geoffrey Alderman, vice-president of Touro College, New York asks whether British universities are slipping into a US litigation culture after Exeter University called...
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Tribute to Steve Baldwin
David Brandon pays tribute to Steve Baldwin, professor of psychology in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Teesside, who was killed in last week's Selby train crash. I first met Steve...
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Research stalled by foot and mouth Agricultural research could be set back by six months or more by the foot and mouth crisis, a university farm director has warned. Research is at a standstill and...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, controversial history professor and media favourite Niall Ferguson and astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees are three of the eminent dons who will...
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Latest international news
Fonda gives $12.5m to gender research Actress Jane Fonda will donate $12.5 million (£8.5 million) to Harvard University’s school of education to create a research centre that will focus on...
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Drug Misuse Research Programme (2001-2004)
Deadline: 31/12/2004
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Research Grants
Deadline: 30/03/2001
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
When I began to study psychology back in 1972, it was still very much a "rats and stats" subject. There were other topics of course - I vividly remember those exciting early lectures on visual...
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Tour guide for foreign fields
Michael Coe writes textbooks that also appeal to tourists. Andrew Robinson meets the scholar of Meso-america. My interest in ancient Mesoamerica began with my interest in its art. When I was in my...
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The bookseller and the net threat
Academic booksellers are facing a range of stern challenges, as Chris Sugden explains. Changes in higher education are posing a major challenge to academic booksellers. Over the past ten years they...
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High-tech reading is low on meaning
Karen Murphy argues that text read on a computer screen can be less easy to understand than a traditional textbook. On the surface, it would appear that technology is a blessing to educators and to...
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Recruitment failures lose out on £35m
English universities and colleges that have failed to attract enough students will lose £35 million next year, funding chiefs announced today. While institutions will have a chance to reclaim some of...
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DFEE's loan payoff plan goes for legal scrutiny
The Department for Education and Employment is taking legal advice after claims that its plans to pay teachers' student loans are illegal. Education secretary David Blunkett recently announced...