Sabine MacCormack, 1941-2012
A historian of "exuberant energies", equally at home in the worlds of ancient Rome and colonial Latin America, has died.Sabine MacCormack was born in Frankfurt on 24 February 1941 and studied...
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Campus round-up
Uclan/Manchester MetropolitanUdderly uniqueArchaeology students have excavated an example of a woman buried with a cow. The students from the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester...
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Grand fee paid for each foreign student
THE investigation shows almost 拢60m spent on agents鈥 commissions. David Matthews reports
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Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results, 2008
As the findings of the final research assessment exercise are released, 糖心Vlog has devised tables of excellence to rank institutions according to their subject successes and their...
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Metrics critic's marching orders
Queen Mary makes Fanis Missirlis, persistent thorn in management鈥檚 side, redundant
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Willetts praises UK鈥檚 role in search for Higgs boson
The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a 鈥渂reakthrough in world science鈥, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.
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Graduate pay perks up, but positions are still scarce
The average starting salary in graduate-level jobs has increased by 6 per cent to 拢26,500 a year, according to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
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Access is still a game where post-92s beat Russell Group
Students at new universities are almost twice as likely to get a full student grant as their peers at Russell Group institutions, figures show.
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Eastwood to be next Russell Group chair
University of Birmingham vice-chancellor David Eastwood has been selected as the new chair of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities.
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MBA applications hit by visa changes
Applications by international students to study MBAs in the UK have been hit by unwelcoming government changes to visa policies, according to a survey from the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
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Welsh reforms aim to hand HEFCW more power on quality
The Welsh funding council will assess how the quality of higher education in the country鈥檚 universities can be improved in changes to its powers outlined in a White Paper released by the Cardiff...
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Advert for unpaid research position withdrawn
The University of Birmingham has withdrawn a job advertisement for an 鈥渉onorary鈥 unpaid research assistant after critics claimed the position was exploitative.
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Inside Higher Ed: Sex and the classroom
By Elise Young for Inside Higher Ed
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EU patent court to establish branch in UK
London will host the pharmaceuticals division of a new European court designed to handle patent disputes, the heads of European Union states agreed on 29 June.