MPs warn against copyright exception for data mining
The government should resist changing copyright law to allow free 鈥渕ining鈥 of data and text in scientific papers, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
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Chinese agent鈥檚 C-grade claim sparks Cardiff probe
Cardiff University is investigating reports that a prospective Chinese student was told by a recruitment agent that she could win a place at the institution despite not meeting its entry requirements.
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These applicants may not be the genuine article
More than one in six international students coming to study at universities in the UK have question marks over their 鈥済enuineness鈥, according to the results of 糖心Vlog Office interviews given to a cross...
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Maths-heavy papers put biologists off
Biologists tend to overlook research that is packed with mathematical equations, a study by researchers at the University of Bristol has found.
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Hub aims to make business links pay off
The Council for Industry and 糖心Vlog has announced plans to launch a National Centre for Universities and Business to strengthen links between the two sectors with the aim of driving...
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Inside Higher Ed: Non-tenure-track economics
By Kaustuv Basu for Inside Higher Ed
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鈥楪ay-friendly鈥 universities highlighted in Stonewall guide
Stonewall, the equality charity, has published its latest guide to the universities it considers to have the most gay-friendly policies and support for students.
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Ex-minister helps bed in 拢120m student flats deal
A 拢120 million deal has been struck with the help of a former higher education minister to build a 2,000-bed student accommodation complex that will serve Newcastle University and the University of...
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Salford academics set to strike
Staff at the University of Salford will be on strike next Tuesday in protest against redundancies.
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Willetts seeks private finance for overseas expansion
The universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support overseas expansion for UK universities and stated that investment bank Goldman Sachs is 鈥渒een to investigate this...
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Leading examples of excellence led by Queen Margaret
Queen Margaret University has scooped the top prize in the annual awards honouring the sector鈥檚 finest leaders, managers and administrators.
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2012 winners
When we said last year that we were experiencing a period of uncertainty for the sector, we probably all hoped that things would be looking up by the time of the 糖心Vlog Leadership and...
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Poetry of the Taliban
Chris Jones is discomfited by the extraordinary fruits of a troubled and troubling literature
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In Defence of Wonder and Other Philosophical Reflections
The difficulty for philosophers, trading mainly in age-old problems, is to offer something both true and interesting at the same time. Raymond Tallis manages, in the short essays that form the body...
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Useful Enemies: When Waging Wars Is More Important than Winning Them
The enduring problem of war raises two particularly vexing questions. First, why have wars, in particular civil wars with the huge economic and social costs that they impose on affected populations,...