UCL provost takes pay cut in face of ‘acute financial pressures’
Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London, responds to the government’s cuts in university budgets with tight housekeeping measures. John Gill reports
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Cable ‘taken aback’ by recent v-c pay rises
Business secretary urges restraint and calls for the sector to halt ‘salary escalation at the top level’. Simon Baker reports
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Book of the week: Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism
Is the pristine wilderness extinct - or was it only ever a myth? Jules Pretty on the dichotomies of humans and our habitat
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Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, by Daniel Dorling
This analysis of elitism is not new, says Fiona Taylor, but neither are the claims made in elitism's favour
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Understanding the International Student Experience
It is rare that international education in the English-speaking countries becomes manifest as the "rich intercultural experience" that marketing brochures like to talk about. A persistent finding in...
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The Canon. The Second World War, Volume VI: Triumph and Tragedy. By Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill famously once said that history would be kind to him because he would write the history. His six-volume work The Second World War is thus portrayed not as his autobiography, but as...
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Bard to the bone
Matthew Reisz talks to Stanley Wells, doyen of Shakespearean editorial scholarship, about his lifetime commitment to the playwright and his new book on romance and the 'beast with two backs'
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ARTS AND DESIGN- The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010: Reconstructing its History and ArchitectureBy Warwick Rodwell, visiting professor in the department of archaeology, University of...
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University of Derby - Bandwidth of sisters
Most modern feminists prefer online activism to physical protests, according to research. A survey of 1,265 feminists, carried out by the University of Derby, says that more than twice as many prefer...
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University of Strathclyde - Send in the marine technology
A research institute for marine technologies has opened in Scotland. The Strathclyde Marine Institute at the University of Strathclyde will study the performance of offshore energy technology plus...
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University of Abertay Dundee - Elementary, my dear data
Tracking criminals' digital footprints will be the focus of an undergraduate course. The degree in digital forensics at the University of Abertay Dundee will prepare students to work in police...
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Edinburgh Napier University - Hearing you loud and clear
People with impaired hearing could benefit from an invention developed by a student in product design. Elaine McLuskey, from Edinburgh Napier University, has designed a futuristic "social sphere"...
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Portsmouth/Southampton - Particles of the waves
Volcanic ash from Iceland may have caused disruption for many, but it has also allowed marine researchers in the North Atlantic to conduct a unique experiment. A team from the University of...
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University of Cambridge - State-sponsored science
The origins of the longitude system used to chart how far east or west a ship at sea had reached will be the subject of a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council....
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University of Southampton - Crystal clear
A £3.5 million state-of-the-art facility is being set up in southern England to help scientists across the UK study chemical structures at the atomic and molecular levels. The National X-ray...