We all agree that universities are under-funded. Successive governments for 30 or more years have neglected their responsibilities to higher education. Our buildings are in a state of disrepair and...
More important than whether UCL and Imperial merge is whether they remain part of the University of London, argues Graham Zellick. Mergers are not new in the University of London. Over the past...
If UCL and Imperial merge, it could spell the end for some of London's smaller colleges, warns Geoffrey Alderman. The proposal made by its rector Sir Richard Sykes, that Imperial College should...
After a fire destroyed part of its chemistry building on Sunday night, Salford University has urged fire-service unions to agree to respond to incidents in public institutions in the event of a...
The Cross Cutting Review of Science and Research published this week describes the research funding situation in UK universities as "unsustainable in the medium to long term". It also warns that any...
The market-rate tuition fee for a science degree is more than £10,000 a year at ten universities in the UK. The revelation comes a week after Imperial College, London, approved proposals to charge...
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Middle Eastern Literatures
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This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a late work by a novelist with Communist sympathies: "Castle, ever since he had joined the firm as a...
Transgressions