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The Dominican Blackfriars founded St Andrew's monastery in Norfolk between 1307 and 1310. The friary was purchased by the city in 1540 during the reign of Henry VIII and was made into "a fayre and...
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Wales being left behind, says UCU
Union warns that Assembly must close funding gap with rest of UK, reports Melanie Newman
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News in brief
FinancesUniversity spending outstrips RPIUniversities' spending on salaries, goods and services rose by almost double the rate of inflation between July 2007 and July 2008, according to Universities...
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Financial clouds bring gloom to US institutions
'Perfect storm' of shrinking funding and growing dropout rates hits campuses. Jon Marcus reports
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Overseas briefing
United StatesPayout ends tuition fee wrangleA university has paid a total of $33 million (£21.6 million) to 35,000 former students to settle a lawsuit over tuition fees. The University of California...
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Break for the border to find your partners
European collaborations in the humanities can win millions from Hera. Elinor Zuke reports
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe ESRC has announced the winners of its professorial fellowships. The six fellowships have been awarded to social scientists working in the UK who are recognised...
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Cash and care
PhD student Artur Steinerowski has beaten established academics to an international prize for entrepreneurship
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Appointments
The University of Exeter has appointed Guy Hitchcock the head of its Centre for Energy and the Environment. Dr Hitchcock previously worked for Transport and Travel Research, the Energy Technology...
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Nurture all-round talents
Preparing graduates for work does not mean abandoning the ideal of a liberal higher education, argues Eddie Blass
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We don't want a return to disputes, so join us at the negotiating table
Sally Hunt says the UCU will do what it takes to get an equitable pay agreement with employers, if only they will come round and talk
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Steering QR cash to elite could be a 'mistake'
Focus on 'top' research units must be rethought, economist's analysis suggests. John Gill writes
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A personal view - We need to keep some selectivity in funding to ensure a critical mass of 'world-leading' research in our universities
At the Universities UK conference last September, there was much speculation - and anxiety - about the type of league table that would appear after the results of the research assessment exercise...
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The week in higher education
Only one in six students taking the government’s new diplomas have chosen the toughest version of the qualification, which is supposed to be the equivalent of an A-level.According to the Financial...
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Alarm raised over firm's research role
GlaxoSmithKline has unprecedented influence in EPSRC call, chemist argues. John Gill reports