Aston University - Information systems go
The UK's first master's in information systems and business analysis has been launched. Following consultation with international employers, Aston University developed the course with a focus on how...
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University of Leeds - Stick the kettle on
The amount of energy needed to cope with peak demand for electricity could be halved by a new way of storing excess energy. Spikes in demand, such as those that occur during breaks in major televised...
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University of Aberdeen - The Führer's fibs
A historian has uncovered new archive material and personal documents belonging to Adolf Hitler, calling into question the popular understanding of the origins of the Third Reich. Thomas Weber, a...
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Cor blimey, guvnor!
Yer 'avin' a Steffi, ain't yer? The old David brown bread in firty donkey's. Sez oo?Says Paul Kerswill, professor of sociolinguistics at Lancaster University, who claims the cockney language will...
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Old and new cloisters ring to the march of the managers
Academic and support staff report shift to culture of commerce, paper reveals. John Morgan writes
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Odds and quads
This silver plaque appears above the urinals in the men's lavatory at the University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library.Businessman and philanthropist Michael Zinman, who claims to lack a "stop gene...
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Charities no panacea for ill effects of medical cuts
Researchers fear scalpel will be taken to specialist areas, with terrible results. Hannah Fearn writes
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THE World University Rankings
One of the things that I have been keen to do as editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings is to engage as much as possible with our harshest critics.
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#LoveHE: Tabula rasa
Student life gave Roxanne Pallett a blank canvas from which to reinvent herself and the confidence to follow her dreams
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Share the love: an open exchange of ideas will promote innovation
We have the technology to share knowledge, says Malcolm Read, but researchers need to work towards a culture of openness
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The week in higher education
The celebrity status enjoyed by University of Manchester physicist Brian Cox reached new heights on 19 August when he was unveiled as a guest columnist in The Sun. Professor Cox used his full-page...
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The appliance of extra science is no economic panacea
Analysis finds no correlation between number of STEM graduates and growth. John Morgan reports
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Students raise the stakes on whether they make the grade
Academics worried that their students are spending too much time in the pub and not enough in the library might consider pointing them in the direction of the betting shop.Responding to news of the...
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Forum calls on lovers of verse to find muse in genomics
Shall I compare thee to some DNA? Or to paraphrase Wordsworth: "Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: Genomics hath need of thee."Biologist bards have been invited to take inspiration from...
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Alternative medicine council ousts critic
'Ofquack' dismisses professor who claims 'reflexology is bollocks'. Paul Jump reports