Gulf opens for UCL as Qatari campus aims to unearth past
Regional cash bankrolls postgraduate focus, but critics warn of reputational risks. John Gill writes
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Global success, Suomi-style: Finns take you higher more cheaply and easily
The university sectors of Norway, the Netherlands and Finland are models for the international community when it comes to accessibility and affordability, a new analysis suggests.
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Meeting of minds on many matters
Academy's challenges feature among wide-ranging, myth-popping debates. Matthew Reisz reports
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Unshackling a great notion
Shifting ideas of 'honour' have played a role in atrocities such as foot binding and the slave trade, but the concept can also be used to change entrenched views and end injustices, philosopher Kwame...
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Discerning palette
Alex Danchev salutes the inexplicable mastery of Cézanne, subject of a scrupulous exhibition
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Daytime TV: Darkness lingers
The National Grid spread light, but the unemployed still just hang on in the shadows, learns Gary Day
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Diary
BirminghamQueering the MuseumIt is often assumed, argue the creators of a bold new exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (4 November to 30 January 2011), that the world is straight, and...
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The Pick - Paraphernalia framing British art
40 Degrees of SeparationThe Goodison Room, Tate BritainLondon until February 2011Established in 1970, the Tate Archive contains more than a million items - diaries, notebooks, letters, sketches,...
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UUK is OK!
Our vice-chancellor has vigorously defended the response of Universities UK to the Browne Review.Speaking to our reporter Keith Ponting (30), he commended UUK's decision to say absolutely nothing...
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Leader: Time for a return to entry duty?
Universities have for some time left A levels to others, but they may soon find themselves driven to reassert control
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What do we say on the tin?
In competitive times, it's hard to avoid hype in a prospectus, says Tim Birkhead
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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From where I sit - Mass education: the good points
I wonder what university teaching will look like in, say, 10 years?Will the age-old system continue, in which a lecturer pontificates from a lectern for an hour or two and tutors of varying ability...
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Kimmy Eldridge, 1947-2010
An academic who played a key role in forging links between higher education and the NHS has died.Kimmy Eldridge was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 8 August 1947.She early acquired a lifelong...
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University of Oxford - Coffers swell
A university's international fundraising campaign has passed the £1 billion mark. The campaign was started by the University of Oxford in 2008, when a target of at least £1.25 billion was set. The...