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The European Commission is seeking bids for the latest round of its innovative transatlantic student exchange schemes. The five-year project, launched last year to promote understanding between the...
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Bath paid 'unusual' fees
Financial mismanagement of a Department for Education and Employment contract at Bath University included "unjustified" and "unusual" fee payments of more than Pounds 178,000 to three administration...
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The pioneering biochemist who became an entrepreneur
Graham Lawton talks to the scientists who have founded companies and turned their research into gold The first spin-off company in Oxford University's 800-year history was formed in 1988 by...
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Victims of the silent minority
Labour is so far ahead in the polls that the party will probably win the general election. But the pollsters will struggle to predict the majority because the problems that tripped them up in 1992...
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Teaching the government to think
William Plowden believes a Labour administration should exploit the nation's intellectual capital by drafting academics into Whitehall Not quite 30 years ago Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative...
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Death of the Dons Quixote
Deprived of tenured dottiness and assailed by politicalcorrectness,is the hero with a licence to lecture becoming extinct? Adrian Mourby, with an extract from his campus novel (inset), examines the...
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Oxford's alchemists
Graham Lawton talks to the scientists who have founded companies and turned their research into gold In 1992 Steve Davies, professor of organic chemistry at Oxford University, was trying to solve a...
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Beleaguered in Lima
Paul Wilkinson examines the return of a terrorist phenomenon long thought to be in decline - the embassy siege It is easy to see why diplomats continue to be a favourite target for terrorists....
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A people empowered
As India celebrates 50 years of independence, Sunil Khilnani tells David Walker that the West can learn from its democratic methods India is 50 years old this year. Birkbeck College's Sunil Khilnani...
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Global gobblers
Martin Ince reports on the latest global group, the E8 - eight countries whose huge or fast-growing economies pose the biggest challenge to the planet's environment You know the G7, that photo...
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'Elitism' hinders learners
Entrenched, elitist prejudice and anachronistic teaching methods at Cambridge University are failing its ethnic minorities, state school students and women, the student union has claimed. In its...
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Flood warning: prepare to be sued by students
Thames Valley University became the latest university to receive a summons from a former pupil this week. And lawyers called for urgent clarification of the legal basis of universities' contracts...
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Geographers bucked up
Geographers are "cautiously optimistic" following a meeting with the Higher Education Funding Council for England to argue against its plans to place the discipline on the lowest funding band. A...
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Scotland's grants review promises financial relief
Further education colleges are short of cash. Some think working with higher education institutions is the answer, but Scottish colleges have been penalised for doing so. Scotland's further education...
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All the world's no longer Will's stage
Only one third of major American colleges now require their English majors to take a Shakespeare course, according to a recent survey. The finding has fuelled concerns that the great authors are...