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Ivy League may take best British students US Ivy League universities will have set up campuses in the UK by the end of the decade to recruit British students, predicts Andrew Oswald, professor of...
Ivy League may take best British students US Ivy League universities will have set up campuses in the UK by the end of the decade to recruit British students, predicts Andrew Oswald, professor of...
Ivy League may take best British students US Ivy League universities will have set up campuses in the UK by the end of the decade to recruit British students, predicts Andrew Oswald, professor of...
Bursars blamed for debt crisis at Oxford A major Oxford University benefactor last night hit out at the colleges' approach to investment after it emerged yesterday that half of them had plunged into...
Earth has close shave from large asteroid An asteroid the size of a football pitch and large enough to raze a major city missed the Earth by just 75,000 miles last Friday, a distance considered to be...
Universities threaten to go private Britain’s elite universities are threatening to lead a breakaway from state-funded higher education if the government waters down plans allowing them to charge top...
Prince stands accused in honours row Honours for leading scientists involved in animal experiments and GM crop research have been blocked because of the influence of the Prince of Wales, it is...
Prince stands accused in honours row Honours for leading scientists involved in animal experiments and GM crop research have been blocked because of the influence of the Prince of Wales, it is...
History men fall out over spy tales Historian Anthony Glees has accused a senior Liberal Democrat politician and fellow academic, John Roper, of having been an "agent of influence" for the East...
MPs attack universities over science base failure Universities have failed Britain's science base because of their "callous and short-sighted" management culture, a Commons inquiry will say today....
Covid’s impacts are yet to take the sheen off local universities’ rankings performance, with their average scores now topping the world
The India-born, CUNY-based expert on light-matter interaction discusses his work to help school students share his sense of excitement
World Bank study weighs strengths and flaws of universities in wake of Arab Spring
From the swinging Sixties of Shrimpton and the Krays to the 2012 Games, David Bailey’s eye captures ever-mutable London
The UK’s ‘rock star historian’ Peter Frankopan talks to Matthew Reisz about his ambitious follow-up to his Silk Roads chronicle and the perils of being seen as a modern-day sage
‘Exponential growth’ in past few years sees China gain on the US in race to be the leading nation in global research output