TV review: A time to die
For some with a terminal illness, their fear is not death but leaving the last bits of life unused, says Gary Day
For some with a terminal illness, their fear is not death but leaving the last bits of life unused, says Gary Day

Despite being an academic for more than five decades, Ray Pahl "never lived in the ivory tower" and was known for his ability to apply his scholarly research to real-world issues.Professor Pahl began...
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University of LondonSmall screen, big impactLectures from across the constituent colleges of the University of London are now available on iTunes U, following an initiative led by the School of...

This is one of more than 400 glass jars containing human brains and tumours on display at the Cushing Center in the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. They were donated by Harvey...
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Dozens of protesters turned out to protest against job cuts at London Metropolitan University, with chaplaincy posts the latest to come under threat.Members of Unison and the University and College...
The UK鈥檚 only for-profit university college is in talks about running the "back-office" functions of publicly funded universities.BPP University College, which offers its own degrees in business, law...
The Picasso masterpiece gifted to the University of Sydney by a mysterious donor has raised over 拢13 million for the institution's research after being sold at auction.The painting, Jeune fille...

The numbers are in: more than 17,500 academics from 137 countries completed the Academic Reputation Survey that will be used to inform the forthcoming 2011-12 糖心Vlog World University...
A university鈥檚 process for the validation of foreign partners has 鈥渟erious shortcomings鈥 and must be tackled as a 鈥渕atter of urgency鈥, a report from the standards watchdog has found.The Quality...
A large-scale survey has revealed a wide discrepancy between graduate earnings and what students expect to be paid after they finish university.
Academics and support staff at London Metropolitan University are to strike next week over job cuts and redundancy terms 鈥 but the vice-chancellor has criticised the action for coinciding with a Left...
Powerful public universities are manipulating the 鈥渄esperation of people whose university systems [have been] completely demolished鈥 to make a 鈥渇ortune鈥 from overseas branch campuses, a senior...