Icons of the 1960s are in need of £11bn makeover
Report says buildings require costly repairs as they near the end of their lives, writes Chloe Stothart
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Income of £7,000 required to cut dropout risk
Students need a guaranteed minimum income of £7,000 to combat the risk of dropping out through financial hardship, the National Union of Students Scotland has warned.Findings detailed in the report...
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Egyptian joint venture falters
Loughborough University highlights difficulties with degree validation. Melanie Newman reports
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20 years ago
"Reading for a degree is out of fashion, and has come to seem either a quaint affectation, or even worse, a flaunting of elitism by association. But the use of written aids to passing degrees is...
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News in brief
Transatlantic co-operationPM keen to boost exchangesUK and US universities should co-operate "at a far higher level" than they do, the Prime Minister wrote last week in The Wall Street Journal. "I...
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The last punk
Tara Brabazon on Peter Saville’s remarkable staying power at the edge of fashion
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Surveillance and the rights of the individual
New guidance clarifies the use of closed-circuit television
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Top 20 institutions in chemistry based on citations per paper
Data from Thomson Scientific's Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997-31 October 2007
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Praise for our Prospectus
Our Deputy Head of Prospectus Management, Angela Topping, was quick to respond to recent claims by the new Government-run student juries that some university prospectuses were "misleading" and "...
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A sunshine state of affairs
Florida's not all guns and gators, says Alan Ryan - it funds a liberal arts college
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Off Piste: Reality check
In the first in a series in which academics range beyond their area of expertise, philosopher Simon Blackburn proffers his top ten modern myths
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Guest leader: Focus on real access issues
Encouraging children to have higher aspirations will improve GCSE pass rates and help widen participation, says Steve Smith
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Paul Wheeler, 1966-2008
Colleagues have paid tribute to an "amazing" academic found dead earlier this month.Paul Wheeler, a senior lecturer in learning disability nursing at the University of Glamorgan, had recently been...
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Oxford refuses to reveal ethnic poll findings
Consultation is part of university's drive to increase minority student numbers. Melanie Newman reports