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Learning how to provide Vegas' circus maximus
Jon Marcus meets the engineers specially trained to create Cirque du Soleil's astonishing special effects
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The week in higher education
? An archaeological dig by university researchers in a council car park has apparently uncovered the skeleton of Richard III, The Daily Telegraph reported on 13 September. Academics from the...
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Leader: No one is escaping the mire
With student admissions down 54,000 on last year, even elite institutions are facing severe financial hardship
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From Where I Sit - Dissociated thought, bloody act
On a recent visit to Bergen in Norway, it was raining and, gloomily, everything on the menu was fish. The Anders Behring Breivik trial was coming to a close in Oslo yet you couldn't get it on the...
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Odds and quads
This sculpture of a "terror bird", with painted polystyrene eye, can be found in the Alfred Denny Museum at the University of Sheffield.
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Appointments
University of the West of EnglandGabriel ScallyThe new director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Healthy Urban Environments at the University of the West of England said he...
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That's entertainment?
No stranger to broadcasting himself, Christopher Bigsby considers the rise of the public intellectual - halfway up a mountain, on a motorbike, quoting Aeschylus, coming to a telly near you
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Speed trap sprung
Susan Bassnett says that many play fast and loose with foreign students
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Research intelligence - What's on the cards for the REF?
Speculation rife on GPA thresholds as sector gears up for submission process. Paul Jump reports
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Thresholds
Merseyside is the perfect setting for an exhibition that explores departure points, national identity and the fluid nature of ‘British art’, finds Alexander Massouras
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20 September 2012
Weight of numbers - The burden of too much bureaucratic information
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London's distance learning division joins Coursera
The University of London has become the first higher education institution in England to offer courses via US-based online learning platform Coursera.
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Don't get mad, get even
"Instead of adding to the overall footprint we are looking at the whole envelope of estate in terms of its conditionality."
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Formal investigation launched into work at dean's lab
Cardiff University has confirmed that it is to launch a formal investigation into alleged research misconduct in the laboratory of its dean of medicine.