Title up for grabs
A new generation of universities was given the green light this week as the Government published revised criteria for those wishing to gain degree-awarding powers and use the university title. Under...
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Student offers online
The National Union of Students will relaunch its website on Monday to mark the start of Freshers Week. It will offer 50 discounts of between 10 and 20 per cent on fashion, travel, computers, music...
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Big money for tiny tech
Birmingham, Newcastle and Nottingham universities have secured more than Pounds 5 million for nanotechnology research. The grants have been allocated as part of the Department of Trade and Industry's...
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Purvis made professor
Stewart Purvis, former chief executive of ITN, will be the next News International visiting professor of broadcast media at Oxford University. The post is funded by a benefaction from Rupert Murdoch...
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Edinburgh funding
Edinburgh University will strengthen its position in informatics with a multimillion-pound private donation towards a computer research centre. The Wolfson Foundation has pledged £2 million towards a...
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Securing research
Research Councils UK, the body responsible for coordinating activity between the seven research councils, has announced the funding of nearly 400 five-year academic fellowships across the UK. The...
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House prices leave city dwellers out in the cold
Buying a house in Britain's major university cities is certain to remain beyond the reach of the majority of academics - particularly those living in the Southeast. A Times Higher analysis has...
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Scottish village to lure global talent
The principals of Edinburgh's four universities have unveiled radical plans for an international student village in the city to underpin Scotland's Fresh Talent initiative. John Archer, principal of...
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The rise of occidental heroes and villains
Civilised or overly materialistic? Alistair Bonnett asks how the West is seen through Eastern eyes. Many academic fashions spring from nowhere and return there soon after. The study of occidentalism...
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Bags of Plato but no nookie
There aren't many places where all of human life debates the whereabouts of the corkscrew - that's the beauty of summer school, says John Kirkaldy. It was without doubt the most bizarre encounter of...
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Markets will value cash over caring
Allyson Pollock condemns new Labour's trend for back-door privatisation, which penalises the most needy in society. When Tony Blair needed urgent medical care for his heart problems earlier this year...
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Not a man to be swayed by fads
The ESRC's new director won't let trends prevent research into social evolution, says Terry Philpot. Despite Labour's seeming impatience with public-sector reform - likely to be a major debating...
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One tour taking in many worlds
Karen Exell continues our series on intellectual tourism by describing the challenges of being a cultural guide in Egypt. What is intellectual tourism? In a nutshell, it's a holiday with facts: art,...
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Universe all summed up
The Road to Reality
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Past lives of the pomos, proto-pomos and pomophobics
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