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Schwartz to leave Brunel University Steven Schwartz, the controversial vice-chancellor of Brunel University, today surprised the higher education sector by announcing he was leaving to head an...
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Unmoved by appeal to union
Identity and Religion
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First Impressions
This week's competition, to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a recent history of medicine: "These are strange times, when we are healthier than ever but more anxious about our...
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The end of the world as they knew it
The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilization
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Three tons of fun or a behemoth?
Clara's Grand Tour
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Toxic fallout of well-meant plans
Venomous Earth
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A few words, patient reader, on the object of your affection
The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
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Let them shift for themselves
On the Parish?
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National interests and common currency
Reshaping Economic and Monetary Policy
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Off the charts and deep into the real world
Understanding the Process of Economic Change
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Hey, Prof, my dad wants to see you
Demanding mums and dads will push universities into accepting far more parental representation on campus, a British academic has predicted. Frank Furedi, professor of sociology at Kent University,...
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20% of staff now just teach
One in five academics is on a teaching-only contract, according to official statistics that will fuel concerns over the demise of the traditional link between teaching and research. At least 80 per...
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'A lot of people are watching this. It's a real challenge for Scotland'
The UK's biggest physics group will be led by Ian Halliday, who expects peer pressure to raise standards Ian Halliday, who stood down in March as chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy...
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On the move...
*The Council of Gresham College has appointed Michael Mainelli , executive chairman and founder of Z/Yen Limited as the Mercers' School memorial professor of commerce from August 1 for a three-year...
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Scientists fear broken pledge
The Treasury is privately planning to claw back a significant proportion of the science funding that it committed in its much-vaunted ten-year review of science last summer, The Times Higher has...