Spot the Catholic
Scotland has just one Catholic v-c. Is this because the country is dominated by Protestant bigots? Tom Devine calls for more research into Scotland's shame When Scotland's foremost young composer,...
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The players behind the games
Next year, Sydney plays host to the Olympics. Julia Hinde reports on the 2,000 academics tackling everything from designing the stadium to zapping the site's 31 strains of mosquito Snuffles and...
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Get creative or just get going
Creativity is the instinct universities are now being urged to instil in students. But how? Jennifer Currie reports When education secretary David Blunkett recently defended creativity during an...
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Playing Paris for a fortune
Hilary Spurling unravels the tale of Ther se Humbert, who lied her way to fortune and almost destroyed the French Third Republic in the process I first came across Ther se Humbert by chance six years...
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Dino soars in the farmyard
Palaeontologist David Norman explains how working on a TV series recreating dinosaurs on computers threw up some unexpected insights There can be little doubt that nowadays dinosaurs are big news....
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Aping Darwin
On the Origin of Species may be the book of the millennium, but who's actually read it? Geneticist Steve Jones decided to rewrite it for a 20th-century audience. Kam Patel reports After three years...
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Post-16 revisions needed, says LGA
Key elements of the government's blueprint for post-16 education should be revised, says a senior local government representative. Graham Lane, chairman of the Local Government Association's...
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Prepare for a shock
Will profiteering firms and the internet kill off universities? No, says Donald Norman, but they could eclipse campus teaching There is a new model of education in the land. Crass, money-making...
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Bushels: avoid. Lights: turn up
Andrew Oswald argues that if British universities want to earn a bit more they should shout a bit louder Britain's universities are almost invisible. The average Briton reads and hears nothing about...
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Scots in science drive
Henry McLeish, Scotland's enterprise and lifelong learning minister, plans to set up a know-ledge economy taskforce, in a drive to increase the number of science students. His move comes in the wake...
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Students learn how to relax
Stressed out by mountains of marking? Worried about research deadlines? Why not unwind with a little aromatherapy. Or perhaps some reflexology - or even a Chinese massage. The range of services now...
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Centre's closure causes dismay
The University of Exeter has closed its centre for women's studies to the dismay of specialists across the country. There has been widespread concern over the axing of the centre, which the...
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Lifelong learning market untapped
Universities are failing to exploit the market for lifelong learning, according to the preliminary findings of a major study into the impact of virtual and corporate universities on higher education...
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Is all really well at ACCA?
'This week, leading academics and practitioners accused ACCA of "completely undermining accountancy education", with a deal to offer "instant" degrees in association with Oxford Brookes University....
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In the news
'He is "an inveterate user of contacts" with a sharp eye for people in positions of power and for his own and his organisation's profile' David Green's first work for the British Council, of which he...