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Liverpool Hope UniversityEric SaakA musical man hailing most recently from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in the US has been named professor of church history and head of the...
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Market forces blamed for 30% increase in managers
Advent of variable fees would exacerbate the rise, academic warns. John Morgan reports
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Nobel winner smells a mouse and retracts papers
A Nobel prizewinning biologist has retracted two papers written by one of her former postdoctoral researchers after being unable to reproduce their key findings.Linda Buck, a principal investigator...
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Grievance poses academy 'threat'
Graduate demands judgment over degree class; not in court, says university. Paul Jump reports
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News in Brief
FundingChange of business model neededUniversities have been urged to "fundamentally reinvent" their business model, and turn from "cost-driven spending machines" into "mission-driven social...
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Odds and quads
This 15th-century Islamic spherical astrolabe - the only complete example of its kind to survive - is one of the most striking objects in the University of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science.
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Outsource the source code? Robert Gordon considers it
Staff dismay as consultancy recommends farming out entire IT department. Hannah Fearn reports
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NHS streamlining could seriously damage academy's financial health
Strategic authorities may go with no plan in place to allocate training funds. Simon Baker reports
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Financial forecasts unsettled by peer's review
Universities have been asked to "form their own view" on the financial implications of Lord Browne of Madingley's review of student fees and funding before Parliament approves any changes, it has...
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News in Brief
United StatesForget the facials, Obama advisesUniversities must control costs and reconsider costly amenities, President Obama has said. In a conference call with student journalists, the former...
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Gallic shrug for Sarkozy's Silicon Valley-style campus
Technology elite cool on plans to trade chic Paris addresses for soulless suburb. Clea Caulcutt writes
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Mixed reviews greet delayed US research rankings
A multi-million-dollar exercise to rate research programmes in the US has resulted in controversy, with critics questioning its usefulness.As reported by Times Higher Education online, the National...
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Machinating machines
Computers can auto-generate processes, so can we really use them for scientific research if we can't control them? asks Aleks Krotoski
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The week in higher education
Continuing his mission to enthuse the masses about science, Brian Cox told readers of The Sun that life in the laboratory was not only for "clever people with frizzy white hair". Writing on 30...
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Fee market selection: find a niche or go extinct
Universities lacking distinctive missions will disappear, pro v-c warns. Simon Baker reports