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Entry requirementsUcas points to tariff reformThe UK Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has announced a review of its tariff, the system that allows qualifications to be converted into...
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Sing a song of love
John Lennon's unresolved feelings for his mother were part of what made him who he was, says Gary Day
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On yer bike!
In a dramatic cost-saving initiative, our Head of Procurement, Mr T.G. Messina, has announced that all Poppleton academics attending conferences less than 90 miles from campus will be required to...
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Morale heads for the pan
Tim Birkhead fears the consequences of insensitively applied funding cuts
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Research intelligence - Far away, so close
Ongoing research can now be shared face-to-face in full digital detail across the globe. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: As one in search of excellence
Every institution aspiring to be a great university shares a set of values that link multifarious activities to a common purpose
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From where I sit: Two extremes, equally flawed
Japan is a collective-oriented society, as are China and India, albeit all in different ways. The US is an individualist society, as is the UK and much of the rest of Europe, although most other...
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Raymond Allchin, 1923-2010
The leading British expert on Indian archaeology, whose interests embraced much of the culture and history of South Asia, has died.Raymond Allchin was born in Harrow on 9 July 1923 and educated at...
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University of Oxford - Cassandra's legacy
A new website has brought together the handwritten manuscripts of Jane Austen. Led by Kathryn Sutherland from the English faculty at the University of Oxford and funded by the Arts and Humanities...
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UUK has failed to stop decline of teaching
In last week's Letters pages, Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, attacked the editor of Times Higher Education for accusing UUK of "hysteria and hyperbole" over the issue of impending cuts ("...
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International velvet
Andy Masheter clearly recognises the dangers that could arise if UK universities engage in the "reckless exploitation of the overseas market" (Opinion, 24 June). I strongly believe, however, that UK...
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Spice of academic life
We were a little surprised to see how our U-Multirank project was described in THE ("'Serious defects' apparent in 'crude' European rankings project", News, 24 June) - all the more so since the...
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Statistically meaningless
Ian Taylor is correct to say that the tendency to throw around large, uncontextualised numbers as statistical evidence of China's size - and by implication, "threat" - to "us" in the West poses a...
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Republican sentiments
Writing as an avowed anti-monarchist, I was dismayed to read Peter Rice-Evans' attack (Letters, 17 June) on Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's article "Duke of moral hazards" (3 June). Fernandez-Armesto...