Hefce rule change causes 'dirty tricks'
Funding chiefs have been accused of sparking a "dirty tricks" recruitment war and jeopardising standards in a late attempt to bump up this year's student intake. The Higher Education Funding Council...
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University of Wales, Lampeter
The University of Wales, Lampeter, may have to scale down its range of subjects and activities after a dramatic drop in enrolment. Vice-chancellor Keith Robbins has warned staff that the university...
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Cow power
(Photograph) - Maitland Mackie, chairman of the Aberdeenshire-based dairy company Mackie's of Scotland, has donated historic local Milk Marketing Board records to Aberdeen University. Alan Knox,...
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Scotland leads rest of UK in widening participation
Scottish universities have a better record on widening access than the UK average, and are also improving faster, according to the latest figures. The UK average for young full-time entrants from...
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How to apply for a grant
A successful grant application involves time, effort and a good idea, Paul Wymer writes. As well as being demonstrably "the right stuff" in their own field of activity, academics must also be...
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Etruscan culture is not all Greek
Etruscan Studies
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Realism local style - no universality but plenty of truth
The Dappled World
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Challenger to Einstein's theory of time
The New Bergson - Duration and Simultaneity
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Crisps may be good for you
Well-Being and Morality
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a science-fiction writer originally called Harris: " One of the luckiest accidents in my wife's life...
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World according to flux of tropes
Critical Scientific Realism
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Theorising the evolution of sex
Psychology, Evolution and Gender
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An arena for sex, soccer and society
Culture, Sport, Society
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Egg on wall? It's rational
Risk Decision and Policy
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How two tongues work
Bilingualism