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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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...
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Hostages to fortune
Tony Blair on investment and reform of public services, May 24 "Good education is the best way of releasing the talents of our young people." Gordon Brown, speech to CBI, May 23 "So for Britain to do...
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Don's Diary
Wednesday I am one of several academics taking part in the Monte San Martino Trust sponsored walk from Sulmona to Sangro in the Abruzzi mountains. In 1943, many Commonwealth prisoners fled south to...
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On the move
Imperial College , London, has announced the principals of its new faculties: John Perkins , head of chemical engineering and chemical technology, will become principal of the faculty of engineering...
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Good snooze for prince
Move over, Tracey Emin. St Andrews University's School of Art History yesterday presented a landmark lecture on the Melville State Bed, one of the country's most significant pieces of 17th-century...