Terra infirma
A royal commission has just concluded that we do not know much about the ground beneath our feet. Kam Patel unearths some disturbing facts about soil, and three experts explain why its degradation...
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Stature and her liberty
Marina Warner's position outside mainstream academia may have served her well, says Elaine Williams What is a woman from Vogue doing taking on the Church?' That's what the critics were saying. You...
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Raise your glasses, please
(Photograph) - Raise your glasses, please: Leonard Hewitt's Hollings Building at Manchester Metropolitan University - nicknamed the "toast rack" - is one of eight post war university buildings to be...
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Physics posts have rocketed sky high
Academic appointments in particle physics and astronomy have grown strongly in recent years despite a decline in research funding for the disciplines. Ken Pounds, chief executive of the Particle...
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Teikyo two in Aids scandal, Tokyo
Vice president Takeshi Abe of private Teikyo University, Japan, which has a branch campus at Durham and has supported two colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, has resigned after being accused of murder...
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A triumph for science
The finale of our great balloon debate was last week. In it, the faculties of science, social science and humanities argued about which should survive. The other two have to be ejected from an...
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Cine qua non
(Photograph) - Joost Hunningher, director of last week's Lumi re Festival at the University of Westminster, shoulders an early film camera as he meets a Mutant Turtle at the centenary of the Lumi re...
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Open book
Work has started on a Pounds 1.5 million three-storey extension to the library at the University of Essex adjoining the Albert Sloman Library and providing an extra 250 reader spaces. The Higher...
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Lab myth Scotched
The myth of the scientist as a boffin in a white coat is being dispelled by an open day on March 7 run by the 22 further education colleges and five higher education institutions in the West of...
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Devolved Scotland needs successor for SHEFC
A planning and funding buffer body should be responsible for higher education under a Scottish parliament, according to a paper from the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Delegates to...
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THESIS
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service is...
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Historian goes shopping for FBI
A British history professor played a central role in an elaborate FBI sting to catch a Smithsonian curator selling military artifacts from the United States' national collection, it has been revealed...
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Homerton ushered into Cambridge elite
Homerton College, a specialist teacher training institution in Cambridge, is to become more like other Cambridge colleges after being given the go-ahead to admit students for the university's...
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LibDems want cap on tuition
Tuition fees should be capped and institutions which overcharge for courses should be fined, the Liberal Democrats said this week. Unveiling his party's "lifelong learning" policy paper, Paddy...