Institute of Education - Music takes centre stage
Rock-style music lessons are boosting the popularity of GCSE music, according to a new study. Set up in 2003 by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to promote new ways of engaging 11- to 19-year-olds with...
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London Business School - Private equity, public spirit
A multimillion-pound donation will help create the world's leading institute for private equity education and research. Funded by the J. Coller Foundation, the Coller Institute of Private Equity, to...
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Queen Mary, University of London - Uncovering habits of the past
Nuns have long been neglected by historians but will be the focus of a new study funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. A team of researchers at Queen Mary, University of London, have...
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University of Birmingham - Uneasy glances over dinner
A British wading bird's risky feeding habits have been exposed by researchers at the University of Birmingham. The team from Birmingham's centre for ornithology found that golden plovers have large,...
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University of Coventry - Master the art of success
Can entrepreneurship be taught? The University of Coventry thinks so, and has launched a new MA in Global Entrepreneurship to prove it. The two-year course, to be offered from January 2009, will be...
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Edge Hill University - What you know: it's who you are
The way in which an individual's identity influences the process of learning is under scrutiny at a new centre at Edge Hill University. The Centre for Learners' Identity Studies, which opens this...
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Goldenbones
A sports science researcher at the University of Teesside, Iain Spears, hopes he can help prevent - or at least reduce the incidence of - that most fashionable of football injuries, the fractured...
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Academic calls for creation of Christian universities
Biblical values are needed to balance secular bias, claims lecturer. Melanie Newman reports
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Original features
A popular venue for weddings, King's College Chapel is at the heart of the medieval university in the cobbled streets of Old Aberdeen. It is topped by the Crown Tower, voted the nation's third most "...
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UCU backs down to avoid libel case
Union withdraws INTO criticism, saying it lacks funds for costly legal dispute. Melanie Newman reports
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News in brief
LSE Centre for Economic Performance'Charge elite students more'A research paper that analyses the financial dividends of higher education says that students at elite institutions should pay more for...
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Let students pick and mix
Why is it not possible to choose individual courses from a number of different universities, asks Khaled Benkrid
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Trust and transparency are frowned upon while degree inflation soars
The QAA's promotion of bureaucratic centralisation cannot go unchecked, says Terence Kealey - reform is needed
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Go private, London Met boss tells Oxbridge
V-c says government funding should be used to 'transform lives', reports Rebecca Attwood
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QAA finds fault with Buckingham
Watchdog criticises lack of oversight at institutional level, reports Melanie Newman