Mourn their passing
The University of Roehampton study that the seeds of some trees on Madagascar could be dispersed only through the droppings of a species of lemur (Campus round-up, 8 September) reminded me of an...
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Film review: Bill Cunningham New York
Duncan Wu is charmed by a modest octogenarian photographer and the vivid street style he documents
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TV reviews: Are You Good or Evil? & Appropriate Adult
Finding a gene for psychopathy does not help us face depravity beyond comprehension, says Gary Day
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Geoffrey Ford, 1942-2011
In addition to being a distinguished librarian, Geoffrey Ford was also famed for his "astoundingly untidy" office and formidable collection of Rudyard Kipling books.Born in 1942, Mr Ford studied...
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Campus round-up
University of UlsterGolden opportunityNorthern Ireland has been selected as the location for a Confucius Institute. Designed to foster academic, cultural, economic and social ties between China and...
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Odds and quads
These images of monkeys, from around 1840, are magic lantern slides.
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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15 September 2011
21st-century docs - Cartoonist turns film-maker to create PhD The Movie
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Chase profit or risk being as 鈥榙ead as disco鈥, university managers told
A Danish businessman has told a conference of European educators that university managers who resist the profit motive are sticking with a strategy that is 鈥渁s dead as disco鈥.
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Scottish universities could face mergers over 鈥榗ourse duplication鈥
The Scottish government has said that some universities north of the border should merge to avoid 鈥渙verlaps in provision鈥.
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Government accused of cutting science budget 鈥榖y the back door鈥
The government鈥檚 rhetoric on the protection of science funding has not been matched by the 鈥渁larming鈥 fiscal reality, according to the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
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Coalition responds to MPs' concerns over UKCMRI
The government has dismissed concerns over the decision to base the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in central London.
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Proportion of UK GDP devoted to higher education falls again
Investment in higher education in the UK as a share of national wealth dropped further behind the average among industrialised countries even before the current funding reforms, according to an...
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Northern Ireland joins Scotland and Wales in charging 鈥榬est-of-UK鈥 students 拢9k
Northern Ireland has become the latest of the devolved nations to announce that its universities will charge 鈥渞est-of-UK鈥 students up to 拢9,000 a year 鈥 a move that will subsidise lower fees for the...