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An instinct for innovation will enable higher education to lead the environmental agenda. David Eastwood explains Higher education has been at the heart of identifying the causes and the extent of...
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Sign up for a stint of space exploration
A new model for assessing a university’s building needs takes into account not only its academic profile but also staff and students’ activities, says David Chiddick A ffordability is a critical...
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Prime developers of urban attractions that foster sustainable community life
Nottingham’s Jubilee Campus is notable not just for its design but also for its role in regeneration, as Matthew Baker reports Back in the 1960s, T. Dan Smith, the maverick leader of Newcastle City...
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Green Gown Awards: Eco-warriors battle to clean up the act
This year’s winners had new spins on fuel efficiency, bicycle recycling, environmentally friendly building renovations and course content. Martin Ince reports The Green Gown Awards are designed to...
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Cut the gas — shed more light on a low-carbon culture instead
The 2006-07 awards are marked by impressive efforts to reduce waste and recycle more, underpinned by cash constraints and the need to cut energy use. Peter James explains This year’s Green Gown...
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En suite and sour
Hotel-style digs with price tags to match offer students comfort and universities income, so why isn’t everyone keen on such schemes? wonders Alison Utley Dishwashers, leather sofas, broadband, flat-...
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Students fill the places and we focus on the spaces to make things happen
People expect a campus to have modern amenities and be sustainable. The estate manager must balance such demands, says Peter Kerr A university is often recognised by its estate, and many use it as...
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Two days in the life: Go for that wow factor...
…but does good design have to break the bank? wonders UCE estates director Graham Rhodes, as he battles with budgets, builders and casts an eye over a blueprint or two FEBRUARY 12, 2007 9am–11am It’s...
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Find a partner: join a carbon dating agency that makes a difference
Universities keen to cut their carbon footprint can join a consortium that will help them to minimise their energy costs. Andrew Fields explains The Government’s 2006 climate change programme put the...
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Learning & skills in HE Published: June 01 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track Work-based learning Published: May 11 2007 "One of the most important ways...
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Microsoft supplement Published: June 22 2007 Deep learning: how to get students on the insight track  ...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Leeds Metropolitan University plans to impose a set of 'attitudes and behaviours' that includes the expectation that academic staff will 'go the extra mile', show 'courtesy and respect' and have a '...
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Alan Ryan
First, the obligatory declaration: both my parents left school before their 14th birthdays, one grandfather drove trucks and the other was a shot-firer on the South Yorkshire coal field. Actually,...
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Leader: We must tackle the literacy crisis
It is a mark of how committed academics are to their students and to teaching that there has been no outcry nationally over the levels of students' preparedness for university study. Lecturers do not...
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Leader: Too much Kant?
Plato, apparently, had little time for business and businessmen, believing that only the worst types of people bothered with such stuff. But then he was in the habit of denying the reality of the...