Newcastle University - Northern highlights
The Great North Museum, a £26-million project that has taken three years to complete, has opened at Newcastle University. Exhibits include mummies from ancient Egypt, the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus...
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Nottingham Trent University - Quantitative pleasing
A specialist economics unit is being launched by Nottingham Trent University's Business School as part of its 30th anniversary celebrations. Nottingham Economics will provide consultancy advice on a...
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University of York - We're in local business
Up to £20 million of investment will be provided to local technological enterprises in and around York after a successful bid for European funding by the University of York in partnership with...
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University of Warwick - Global masters tour
A double masters programme in international studies launched by universities in Britain and Singapore aims to give students a global perspective. The University of Warwick has teamed up with Nanyang...
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The Robert Gordon University - Cash for skills
The European Social Fund has invested more than £400,000 in The Robert Gordon University to help it to provide professional training for small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) in Aberdeenshire. The...
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A clear vote for fairness
This Mozambican voter was photographed by a British lecturer who was in the country last month to help monitor elections.Andrew Russell, senior lecturer in politics at the University of Manchester,...
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World in motion: 19 November 2009
If there was ever any doubt that world university rankings have become a serious matter for the higher education community, one had only to glance around at the International Conference on World-...
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Putting the science back into fiction
A new book aims to engage with genuine, rather than far-fetched, advances. Matthew Reisz reports
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Building blocks
Paul Thompson's first priority as the head of the Royal College of Art will be to ensure a smooth move to a new campus
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Appointments
Roger Kain, deputy vice-chancellor for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Exeter, has been named dean and chief executive at the University of London's School of Advanced Study....
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Odds and quads
When Julie Flowers and Rosalind Howell put on a piece of "live art" called Grill ... A Piece of Toast at a National Review of Live Art event at Nottingham Trent University in 1994, they used this...
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Happiness research makes academics rather unhappy
£4.4m ESRC study of subjective wellbeing labelled 'disgraceful' and 'spooky'. Melanie Newman writes
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'Constipated' pitches about being 14th best fail to hit the mark
Institutions marketed like a novelty band will not stand out, conference hears. John Morgan reports
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Overseas briefing
United StatesSpeak out, professorAmerican academics are being urged to speak out to protect their freedom of speech amid fears over the potential impact of a Supreme Court ruling. The American...
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'Reform will be very difficult, but it is the only way to go'
Universities must hold nerve despite protests, says head of grande école. John Morgan reports