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The 2.6 billion dollar man
'If we were disaccredited, it would be the accrediting agency that looked foolish.' Harvard's departing president Neil Rudenstine tells Auriol Stevens about the challenges of running a world-class...
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You're smart, but are you 'box' clever?
From social history to quantum physics, television is hungry for experts, so if you want to give your academic career a kickstart, get some media exposure, advises Adrian Mourby. Once upon a time,...
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Older, keener, but not always wiser
Single mums and TV stars are going back to college, reports Julie McCord. When television presenter Matthew Kelly decided to combine his successful showbusiness career with the commitments of a part-...
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Going straight... to university
A pioneering project is helping offenders, drug addicts and other marginalised groups to change their lives through education. Mandy Garner reports. Joe Baden is, unfortunately, not your average...
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Stanford nets record $400m gift Stanford University is to receive $400 million (£280 million) from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the largest donation ever made to a United States...
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250 jobs to go at King's King’s College London plans to cut nearly 250 jobs over the next three years, mainly from the schools of physical sciences and engineering, biomedical sciences and...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times A system that offers personalised cancer treatment based on genetic tests has been developed by IBM, Emory University and the genomics group Nu-Tec Sciences. Georgia...
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Bill unveiled for $1bn university quake fund Two California congressmen are sponsoring a bill to set up a $1 billion trust fund to help universities revamp their buildings to withstand earthquakes....
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Mandarin admits policy entangled in red tape Education department chief Sir Michael Bichard admitted to MPs yesterday that education policy, such as the teaching quality assessment, had become overly...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The University of Liverpool has positioned itself as a centre for the next generation of dotcom entrepreneurs by unveiling the first UK degree in e-business. The Independent Thousands...
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Oxford attacked over race bias Oxford University’s Majlis Asian society has said it is concerned about the university’s attitude to race issues. It is particularly outraged by Oxford's handling of an...
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Violence erupts over Venezuelan protest Academics and students at the Central University of Venezuela were among the injured as students who want an end to a month-long occupation over university...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times King's College, London, is to borrow £60m to help fund investments - the biggest unsecured loan raised by a British university. The Guardian The saga of quality assessment in British...
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£18 million for technology partnerships Trade secretary Stephen Byers today announced eight new Faraday partnerships for researching environmentally friendly technology. The £18 million for the...