Return universities to education department, says former minister
Transfer should be reversed to improve widening participation, Bill Rammell says
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PhD foundation stone for architecture lectureship ‘ageist’
Applicant takes Kent to tribunal over doctorate criterion
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News in brief - 27 June 2013
International competition‘Soft power’ diverted EastThe British Council has warned that China and other Asian nations are racing ahead of the West in their efforts to bring cultural “soft power” to...
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News in brief - 27 June 2013
United StatesTexas regency period continuesThe governor of Texas has vetoed a bill that would have reined in the influence of university governing boards. Rick Perry refused to ratify the higher...
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Grant winners - 27 June 2013
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Veronique GouverneurInstitution: University of OxfordThe importance of...
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Campus round-up - 27 June 2013
Source: GettyOne, two, tree…A project to map every tree in the UK has been launched and members of the public are being asked to help. Treezilla, an Open University initiative, aims to create a...
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Odds and quads - 27 June 2013
The desk and spectacles pictured belonged to Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the German polymath whose travels in Latin America led to the first serious scientific account of the continent
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Lord Williams ‘wouldn’t mind’ if term ‘elite’ were dropped
The new chancellor of the University of South Wales tells David Matthews that the word deters poor pupils
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The pioneering foreign students who rebuilt Japan
UCL celebrates 150th anniversary of arrival of noblemen who modernised their country
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Watch the watch lists says UK scholar as US ban lifted
After 12 months barred from travel to US, Nasir Warfa can reopen his diary
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Big, bold and highly accessible
What do Arizona State University, the University of California, Riverside and the University of Central Florida have in common? Well, for a start they are all large – Arizona State alone has more...
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McGill’s global aims undented by local difficulties
Heather Munroe-Blum outlines her institution’s ‘complex mission’
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Appointments - 27 June 2013
University for the Creative ArtsWill AlsopThe man who designed the Hôtel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône (“Le Grand Bleu”) in Marseilles and the Stirling Prize-winning Peckham Library in South...
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Nick Dusic, 1978-2013
A former director of the UK’s Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE) has died aged 34
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A breath of ‘fresh’ air
Christopher Bigsby loved Aberystwyth, despite the respiratory hazards