City University London - City academy gets go-ahead
Jim Knight, the Schools Minister, has signed a funding agreement for a new City of London academy. It gives the go-ahead for Islington Green School to be redeveloped to create the City of London...
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University of Leicester - The big dipper
The first-ever advert broadcast into space will be made with the help of the University of Leicester. The advert for Doritos corn chips, currently the subject of a public competition, will be...
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Imperial College London - Women ambassadors appointed
Female members of staff at a research-intensive university are being offered support from three new "faculty ambassadors". Imperial College London's Academic Opportunities Committee, which aims to...
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University of East London - Campus gains energy savings
Malcolm Wicks, the Energy Minister, has launched a renewable energy initiative at the University of East London. UEL has teamed up with solar energy company Solarcentury to install photovoltaic...
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Queen's University Belfast - Charities back vision research
The Centre for Vision Science has been boosted by grants of more than £500,000 from three charities to investigate the leading causes of blindness in the UK. Over the next three years, a team of...
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Wimbledon College of Art - New home for theatre archives
One of the most extensive and important 20th-century theatre design archives has a new home at Wimbledon College of Art. The relocation of the archives of Jocelyn Herbert will allow students access...
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OU expects jobs and course cuts in light of ELQ shake-up
Greater contract flexibility and a switch to low-cost programmes mooted. Melanie Newman reports
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Ministries split over value of funding second degrees
One government department is at loggerheads with another over cuts in funding for students studying second degrees, it emerged this week.Correspondence leaked to Times Higher Education reveals that...
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News in brief
UCASSTUDENTS' DECLINED OFFERS PROBEDUniversities hope to gain greater insight into what makes applicants accept or decline their offer of a place. A forthcoming survey by the Universities and...
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20 years ago
The principal of Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, David Kennedy, has launched an attack on "intellectual snobbery" that downgrades the Scottish central institutions because of their...
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Want to make international liaisons more meaningful?
RCUK has £12m to help institutions build bridges with research-active nations, says Zoe Corbyn
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Grant winners
ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL- Award winner: Graham Leggett- Institution: University of Sheffield- Value: £411,344Mechanics of nanoscale single asperity contacts in friction...
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Shining example
Richard Daniels brings his enthusiasm for Stanley Kubrick's films to his work as an archivist at the University of Arts London
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Appointments
The head of the Royal College of Art has announced his decision to leave next summer, after 35 years at the college. Sir Christopher Frayling has been rector of the Royal College of Art since 1996,...
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The age of uncertainty
Understanding demographic trends is key to the survival of universities over the next two decades, says Sir Muir Russell