A personal message from the vice-chancellor
Dear All,Last year was another year of achievement for Poppleton University.We retained our existing position in all but four of the leading university league tables and learned that our policy of...
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Research intelligence - The organic approach
Chief scientific adviser and population biologist Sir John Beddington opts for collegiate problem-solving, writes Paul Jump
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From where I sit - Sultan in the swing
Oman is seeking to upgrade its main university so that it can join the ranks of world-class institutions.Sultan Qaboos University, with 14,700 students - almost half of them women - and a state-of-...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: The lure of the great wide open
Liberal arts study, with its long view of how humanity has met its trials, is touted as ideal for the 21st century - but it's a hard sell
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Is your goose cooked?
...and other quandaries to mull over. Malcolm Gillies takes the temperature
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In agony? Don't fret: Uncle Felipe offers a shoulder to cry on
Felipe Fernández-Armesto's words of advice to unpopular or indecisive presidents and ministers who doubt their own policies
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News in Brief
ChinaIt's Party time, Xi tells academyThe man seen as favourite to become China's next president has urged the nation's higher education sector to build closer links with the Communist Party. In a...
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Canada set to step on the international accelerator
Provinces agree to work together to promote a 'national brand' abroad. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Out! Puerto Rico students defy judges and strike
A strike by university students in Puerto Rico has begun in the wake of the imposition of an $800 (£513) annual tuition fee and ill feeling about the presence of police on campus.Police took action...
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Campus round-up
Bucks New UniversityPersuasive case for collaborationA UK university has signed an agreement with a college in Saudi Arabia to help it set up the first advertising school in the Gulf. Academics from...
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHService Delivery and Organisation Programme• Award winner: Steven Goodacre• Institution: University of Sheffield• Value: £152,304Emergency planning in healthcare...
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Blogconfidential: Cold comfort in the Gulag
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Cold comfort in the Gulag
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldBarbara ConwayA former community pharmacist, Barbara Conway, is to use her years of expertise to set up new courses for pharmacy students in Huddersfield.She joins the...
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It's hard to go on
If fees reform puts graduates off postgraduate study, where will academia find its new blood, asks Sir Adam Roberts