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  1. Brummie sings to foreign ears

    The Brummie accent is "highly favoured by foreign visitors due to its lilting and melodious tone", according to research from, er, the University of Birmingham. PhD candidate Steve Thorne analysed...

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  2. Deal promises sex in the park

    Oxford Brookes Business School is to offer consultancy and research to its neighbouring business park, MEPC Milton Park, while providing its executive tenants with MBA courses. In return, tenant...

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  3. No need to unwrap your lunch

    Brazilian scientists say they have created an edible clingfilm. Researchers at Campinas State University in Sio Paulo made the clingfilm from amaranto flour. Florencia Cecilia Menegalli told the...

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  4. Why I.. think students need to learn about ethics

    Simon Lee Vice-chancellor Leeds Metropolitan University. All students should learn about ethics while at university - and not just in the curriculum. There is much to learn at university from the...

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  5. Uncle Sam is innocent

    To blame America for all the ills of modern culture is incredibly naive, writes Cheryl Hudson. In the two years since September 11 2001, there has been much ink spilt about the causes and...

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  6. The toughest job in Britain?

    Why is it so difficult to find a great v-c? Look at the job description, writes Stephen Watson, and it's no mystery. The issue of how universities should be led and managed as they evolve into...

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  7. Telling the tale sparks insight

    Students' understanding of a subject cannot come from textbooks alone, argues Michael Hyland. A good lower-second essay used to be one in which a student presented all the facts while an upper-second...

  8. Fellows: on the front line

    Pat Leon asks a winner of one of this year's national teaching fellowships how she manages. Name: Barbara Graziosi. Age: 31. Job: Lecturer in classics. Salary: £24,121 Qualifications: BA in literae...

  9. Today's news

    Students no longer need to fear the third degree The third-class degree, once a badge of honour for gentleman scholars, is vanishing from universities. Figures released by Cambridge University showed...

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  11. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book about Paris by a Welsh Creole: "'Quite like old times,' the room says. 'Yes?' No?'" * Entries,...

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