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Durham UniversityUnrivalled shelf lifeEurope's oldest surviving book is to go on display in Durham after £9 million was raised to buy it for the nation. The St Cuthbert Gospel, a manuscript copy of...
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Albert Nobbs
Alison Oram on a tale of two very different 19th-century women who lived as men: the charming butch and the fragile androgyne
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Leader: It's gone one step beyond
Funding bodies set the impact agenda, but university managers made it into a song and dance that everyone had to follow
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From Where I Sit - New Delhi, we have a problem
How times change. Some five years ago, the buzzword in Indian higher education was expansion. The 2007-12 Five-Year Plan - a mechanism by which, in part, the government formulated its economic policy...
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THE Scholarly Web
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Off Piste - Pools of Thought
Valerie Sanders has overcome her fear of water - as long as it's the indoor, chlorinated variety - to discover a love of swimming that brings out the worst and the best in her
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts escaped much of the flak in February's row over the appointment of Les Ebdon as director of the Office for Fair Access despite being behind the decision. Two months on, the...
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Dundee tops THE Student Experience Survey as fees put focus on 'value for money'
Many universities are improving the experience for their students, as our survey shows. And they are achieving it by making the effort to understand their students’ particular needs. Zoë Corbyn...
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The delegate's tale
Christopher Bigsby on conferences’ picaresque perils and delights
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26 April 2012
Wave of resistance - Arab students strive to reap the fruits of Spring
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Scientists appeal to cereal killers' reason
Academics at the Rothamsted Research laboratory have launched a direct appeal to protesters not to trash a trial crop of genetically modified wheat at a protest planned for later this month.
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Odds and quads
This photograph features a scene from the 1904 revival at the Moscow Arts Theatre of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths, about a group of impoverished Russians living together in a shelter by the...
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Revolutionary road
As the fallout from the Arab Spring continues, David Matthews reports from Cairo on the birth - and troubled infancy - of the student union movement in Egypt
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Research intelligence - Value according to the metrics system
Scholars criticise methods to judge ‘at-risk’ peers in Queen Mary restructuring. Paul Jump reports