Barbara Scholz, 1947-2011
The choice between "learning and earning" was always an easy one for Barbara Scholz, whose passion for academia and the pursuit of knowledge was a constant throughout her life.Born in Ohio in 1947,...
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Named and shamed: high US study costs exposed
New government website lists comparative data, but careful interpretation is needed, writes Jon Marcus
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Appointments
University of HullBernard BinksA professor of physical chemistry at the University of Hull has won a prestigious European prize for his work with nanoparticles. Bernard Binks, who was awarded the...
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Odds and quads
These lantern slides are among the treasures of the little-known Alfred Denny Museum at the University of Sheffield's department of animal and plant sciences.
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Research intelligence - New journal, all-new rules
Practising scientists will edit an open-access title backed by three major research funders. Paul Jump reports
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Richard III and The Comedy of Errors
The soul’s yearning to find its psychological or physical other half unites two of Shakespeare’s early plays, says Peter J. Smith
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From where I sit - Digging deep to survive terrorism
Terrorism is threatening not only individuals in Pakistan but also their cultural heritage, by making life impossible for those trying to develop its rich archaeological resources.Archaeologists'...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
Kingston UniversityPenny for your causeDesign students have turned their talents to developing a new way of donating to charity. The scheme designed by Helen Parry and Stuart Kench at Kingston...
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Off Piste - A Connecticut Yankee in King Alan's court
Thom Brooks is living the American Dream, not in the US itself but among the Geordies. And unlike Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, coming to the UK feels like a journey to the future, not the past...
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The week in higher education
• Government ministers have long argued that student loans do not constitute debt in the usual sense because they are paid off only by graduates earning good salaries. But the message seems not to...
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Nurture the late bloomers
Graduate-entry medicine should be spared the fees fallout, argues Kevin Fong
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7 July 2011
This little piggy got £27,000… - Can empowering students make a higher education market work?
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Look out for that pig in the road
Ministers devising education policy are more in need of L-plates than the students they would put in the driving seat