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The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Marine protests sinks budget cut
A national marine biological station believes a political campaign against budget cuts has led to a climbdown by English and Scottish higher education funding councils. Earlier this year, the...
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Budget cuts get blame for boom in dropouts
More than a quarter of American students are dropping out after their first year in college, many apparently because they cannot keep up with rising tuition costs. A survey of 2,564 colleges by...
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Doctors in trouble all year round
Vittoria D'Alessio reports on the social side of a British Psychological Society conference at Strathclyde. Over half of junior hospital doctors are at risk of making errors on the wards because of...
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Cuppa care and a slice of service
The Northwest is the United Kingdom's 'academopolis', boasting the highest concentration of students in Europe. Harriet Swain and Alison Utley look at how institutions are working to give the region'...
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Vice chancellors indicate support for current pattern of research funding
Vice chancellors meeting in Sheffield last week indicated support for the current pattern of research funding, rejecting any move towards a demarcated group of research universities.They also...
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Oxford management school's history lessons
It was good of Alexander Murray to provide such obvious target practice. His tone of high seriousness barely concealed some pretty ill-informed prejudices. The damning with faint praise of management...
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Return of the natives
Lions, buffalos, elephants, rhinos and leopards - the "big five" as they are known in conservation circles - could once again prosper on the game parks of Mozambique if a major research contract...
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Critics force quality rethink
Plans for a new single quality agency and system for higher education have been revamped in response to criticisms from the sector. Fresh proposals contained in a report to be published in early...
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Nice people, when you get to know them
French anthropologist Philippe Descola tells Lucy Hodges about a lively two years spent with an isolated South American Indian tribe of wife-beaters and reformed headhunters with a penchant for...
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Double Dutch
Too late, alas, for our Howlers competition, but Strathclyde University would have been a strong contender with this offering from an environmental planning exam: "Today, Glasgow has no real function...
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Brunel ends pain in Spain on buses
Mussolini's trains ran on time in the 1930s Italy, much to the chagrin of the Spanish. Now Brunel University is helping them rival Il Duce's achievement on an arguably more recalcitrant public...
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Conveying what Mr Gibberish is driving at
Throw in a few spare parts of a Ferrari with those of an old Skoda and you have the vehicle for conveying economic news to the public, argues John Corner. Nicholas Jones's "insider" account of...