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  4. Who is 2007 campus idol?

    Ontario lecturers are fighting it out on TV to be top of the student charts, writes Philip Fine A television channel has passed up the charms of a usual pretty face, the star researcher, and has set...

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  5. A special relationship that's worth fighting for

    If collegiality is to survive, academic staff should strive to work with, not against, administrators, writes Linda Newman An academic friend and I were discussing how to respond to the latest hare-...

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  6. Alison Wolf

    These days, most British comment on American higher education paints it as the isles of the blessed: the best universities, the best laboratories and libraries, the best paid professors, with needs-...

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  7. Stephen Gomez: Scroll to 'E' for education

    It does not take a Nostradamus to predict the growing use of e-learning. For a number of years I have been using electronic portfolios to remotely track student learning on work placement; though it...

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  8. Honours go for a song

    Warwick University made the acclaimed British composer Michael Nyman sing for his supper before awarding him an honorary degree last week. Mr Nyman had composed a fanfare especially for the...

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  9. Ministers know no modesty

    It seems Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, is less attuned to his academic constituency than he is widely held to be. The House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee made him...

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  10. Scrum for rector at Dundee

    A tough battle is in prospect to determine the successor to TV personality Lorraine Kelly as rector of Dundee University. There are two candidates, neither of whom backs down in the face of...

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  11. Senseless scrabble

    Contrived acronyms for new research projects or centres are now common in academic life, but the University of Central Lancashire should win a prize for "iSLanDS" - the International Centre for Sign...

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  12. Remain in twilight zone for comfort

    Paranormal researchers pursue scientific answers but they, like their forebears, might wish to keep the mystery, Deborah Blum says It has been more than a century - about 120 years, to be exact -...

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  13. Erase old programme and launch new version

    Computer science is an out-of-touch, dying discipline. It must embrace interdisciplinarity to survive, writes Neil McBride Go into a computer science class today and you may well be entering a time...

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  14. University under fire for flawed PhD thesis

    Birmingham University is facing criticism over a PhD thesis that argues that a prominent Holocaust survivor could have been a Nazi collaborator. An independent review of the thesis led the university...

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