Big expansion plans to take city by storm
Two-year degrees at heart of Gloucestershire goal to win 6,000 more students, writes Melanie Newman.
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Iconic mistakes
The reviewer's remarks on Ads to Icons: How Advertising Succeeds in a Multimedia Age (Books, June 22) illustrates the danger of skimming, not reading, a book. Winston Fletcher misrepresented the book...
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'I was a football hooligan, so I had to break the law'
A law lecturer argues that ethics rules must sometimes allow researchers to act illegally in fieldwork. Melanie Newman writes
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Unique Melbourne
To suggest that the University of Melbourne follows the Bologna model ("Monash to focus overseas", October ) is to misunderstand developments here. Our Melbourne model, which includes a suite of high...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILAward winner: Malcolm ValeInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £721,073The Gascon Rolls 1317-1468Award winner: James HegartyInstitution: Cardiff UniversityValue...
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Life-risking 'spy' plan pulled
Academic protests have forced the Foreign Office to delay an anti-terror project. Phil Baty reports Two research councils put plans to enlist academics in the War on Terror on hold this week after...
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Apocalypse: Earthquakes, Archaeology and the Wrath of God
Fifty years ago, the seismologist Charles Richter - he of the famous scale - lamented that "ancient accounts of earthquakes do not help us much; they are incomplete, and accuracy is usually...
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Greek fire and purple majesty
Byzantium
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Anti-terror funds awarded
Winners of nine grants from a controversial Foreign Office-funded programme to help combat terrorism have been announced. Last year, The Times Higher revealed that the Economic and Social Research...
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Demographic decline threatens Europe
European universities will need to shrink by 2020 or recruit large numbers of overseas students to adjust to demographic changes, researchers have said. A paper in the journal International Higher...
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Put that in your pipe and drink it
Humankind worked something of a miracle in the second half of the 20th century. Population trebled, and water consumption increased in proportion. The limits of our resources were tested. But we...
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Number of top earners doubles
A quarter of male academics - but just 9 per cent of women - are paid more than £50K. Melanie Newman reports.The number of academic staff earning more than £50,000 a year has doubled in five years,...
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Don't 'panic' over science-shy Britons, ESRC says
Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, £5 million science and society...
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Languages and linguistics round-up
Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol. Author Lynda Muggleston. Edition Second. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 368. Price £17.99. ISBN 9780199250622.This history of the rise...
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Seriously fresh
A new breed of scholars is expanding the academy by turning music festivals, Lego and puppets into objects and tools of study. Hannah Fearn reports from 'out there'