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Business engagementSpin-offs up by a quarterThe number of spin-off companies set up by universities rose by a quarter in 2009-10, according to the ÌÇÐÄVlog Statistics Agency. The HE Business...
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News in brief
United StatesRhoades trails back to ArizonaThe highest-paid executive at the American Association of University Professors is to leave his post and return to his old job at the University of Arizona...
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Battered but unbowed, L'Aquila abides
Devastating earthquake has not dimmed university spirit, says rector. Diana Garrisi reports
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Minister: rankings helped inspire French reforms
Sweeping reforms of French higher education were prompted in part by its performance in world university rankings, the country's higher education minister has suggested.
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Quality street blues
Roger Brown offers a dystopian vision of university closures, cheap, unregulated for-profits and declining standards
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What a rip-off! US-style fees will undermine value for money here
Forget what the global rankings say: Europe is a worthier model for the UK as students there get a far better deal, argues Anthony Glees
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Let variety flourish
Julian Beer and colleagues warn that the U-Multirank ranking system lacks flexibility and will not reflect institutions' missions
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Top institutions in Mathematics
Top institutions in MathematicsData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 2001-28 February 2011Â InstitutionPapersCitationsHighly cited% highly cited...
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Object lessons in new shapes
Ceramicist and scholar Edmund de Waal argues for combining museum collections with recent work. Matthew Reisz reports
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Diary
LondonUn peu de tendresse bordel de merde!Canadian choreographer Dave St-Pierre has been a major force in the contemporary dance scene for more than five years, an enfant terrible whose work has...
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Close the door behind you
Our Corporate Director of Human Resources, Louise Bimpson, has welcomed the news that University College London plans to outsource all its cleaning and security services.Ms Bimpson told our reporter...
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Bloody hell - is that art?
Yes, says Sally Feldman, of Tracey Emin's display of her own menstrual fluids
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Leader: Lab bench needs front bench help
The right state formula is needed to tackle the wasteful mismatch between so many trained scientists and so few jobs
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US unplugged: manifold benefits of disconnected learning
Momentum gathers behind efforts to reduce or ban online access during lectures. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
Parents, teachers and admissions officers will be hoping that a little stardust sprinkled by Michelle Obama will achieve what widening-participation initiatives have struggled to do: convince bright...