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Stem subjectsProject to raise numbers kicks offA £20 million programme to raise the number of students graduating in science, technology, engineering and maths is to begin this summer. Details of the...
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Daytime TV: The personal touch
Gary Day is impressed by Barbara's sales technique but depressed by a less-than-funny satire
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No business like pork business
In a shock move, our vice-chancellor has transferred himself and all 250 members of our administrative staff to new offices within the Poppleton Pork Products factory.He told our reporter, Keith...
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Whose data is it anyway?
A PhD student's run-in with a senior researcher sets Tim Birkhead thinking
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: A breath of fresh air on campus
Institutions and individuals across academia are embracing the green agenda. But it's still a long way to go to sustainability
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From where I sit - An agenda of despair
As you enter Lille III (the Universite Charles de Gaulle's arts faculty), you are greeted with the words "Le Capitalisme etouffe nos facs! Tuons-le!" ("Capitalism is suffocating our universities! Let...
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Sir Clive Granger, 1934-2009
Sir Clive Granger, the Nobel prizewinning economist, has died.Born in Swansea on 4 September 1934, he moved with his family to Lincoln for his father's job with the Chivers jam company and spent the...
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Manchester Met/Oxford Brookes - It's a start
Two universities are offering schemes to help graduates increase their employability. Manchester Metropolitan University is to give graduates three weeks of training before helping them to find work...
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Blend administration roles
The debate about whether administrators should ever be allowed the title "professor" seems to me a part of the wider debate about the academic/administrator divide ("Call to reserve professor title...
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Business lead in e-learning
In your article "Questions of cost and usefulness dog e-learning" (4 June), it was reported that academics see e-learning as expensive and time-consuming when it comes to teaching students. Clearly,...
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A plot that failed
The University of St Andrews is not the first in the UK to experiment with giving all new students a book and encouraging them to discuss it in book clubs when they arrive at campus ("One book clubs...
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Organising principle
In response to Alan Campbell's disappointment at my blighting of scholarly tradition (Letters, 4 June): I did not take issue with Gary Daniels and John McIlroy's analysis of political or economic...
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Time, gentleman
As time goes by, I value increasingly the worth of subtle, reflective argument and applaud those rare occasions on which bombast disappears from the everyday round. I deem it an act of kindness in...
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All co-ordinates covered 1
Justin Marozzi's jeremiad concerning the Royal Geographical Society is wide of the mark (Letters, 11 June).I do not recognise his caricatured assessment and would urge interested readers to explore...