Royal Institution backs down on Christmas lectures
The Royal Institution has scrapped efforts to ask academics to sign an agreement if they want to use its trademarked term “Christmas Lectures”.
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Final Scottish governance code is criticised
Academic and student unions north of the border have again condemned a new code of governance for Scottish universities as “vague” and “meaningless”.
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University green fund round three unveiled
More than 40 universities are to receive money in the latest round of a scheme to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.
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THE podcast: 18 July 2013 issue review
Download the podcastOne university’s plans to assess academics on the basis of how many of their students obtain a 2:1 for their modules, India’s five-year plan for higher education, and our weekly...
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Role of the dice
Tiffany Taylor weighs the evidence of the importance of random changes in species development
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Australian neutral territory
The view from Down Under on what lies ahead for universities looks familiar, finds Roger Brown
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Red in peril
Roger Morgan on how the liberal doyen Berlin blackballed Deutscher, the ‘intolerable’ Red
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Market misalignment
The marketeers’ blandishments are reducing to ashes the pursuit of knowledge and the very idea of the university, argues Fred Inglis, who looks on their works and despairs
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News in brief
Saudi Arabian scholarship programmeAmerica, here they comeHuge investment by the government of Saudi Arabia in overseas scholarships brought a flood of young Saudis to the US, an analysis suggests....
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Branch breaking point? Investor abandons Napier's Hong Kong venture
Edinburgh Napier outpost uncertain after Hong Kong land use dispute. David Matthews reports
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Wise open space
Minerva intends to reinvent the university as a global experience of elite education with critical thinking at the core. Chris Parr hears the plans
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Research intelligence - Fresh digital chapter
A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf
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Grant winners
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David CassidyInstitution: University College LondonValue: £147,622Gravitational free-fall experiments with positroniumAward winner: Ingrid...
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Obituary - Dido Davies
An acclaimed academic biographer who went on to write a series of guides to sexual technique has diedDido Davies was born on 5 October 1953 to a playwright and an eccentric actress and was brought up...
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Awards and promotions
University of DundeeMark RobsonThe newly appointed professor of English and theatre studies at the University of Dundee has pointed to the post’s “enormous potential”. “The role that I’ll have at...