Lifelong learning threatened by funding change
Universities are closing or reviewing the future of their lifelong learning departments, blaming the "progressive withdrawal" of government funding for adult education classes.This week, the...
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Daytime TV: Naked truths
Gary Day enjoys the evolution behind why humans have no fur, but finds a Yorkshire tale far-fetched
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Competition
Win a Flip Ultra camcorder worth £99.99
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Average citation rates by field 1998-2008
SOURCE: Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 October 2008
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Piercemuller in Parliament
"Students aren't what they used to be." That was the dramatic assertion made by our own Doctor Piercemuller when he recently addressed the House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and...
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It is all a matter of taste
Most education is vocational, and quite rightly so, says Alan Ryan
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Off Piste: Butt of our neuroses
The goat has symbolised lusty desires and Christ-like sacrifice for millennia, but for Helen Wilcox a stray mountain beast in her garden had a rich meaning of its own
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Leader: Where do the curious people go?
Academia long gave asylum to awkward geniuses. It is less welcoming now, and scholars and students both feel the loss
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From where I sit - Student forced to use his noodles
On my way to the faculty dining room, I bought a copy of local newspaper Xinmin Evening News from a roadside newsstand as I waited for the traffic lights to change from red to green.Then I saw one of...
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Ken Green, 1946-2009
Ken Green, professor of environmental innovation management at the University of Manchester, died on 12 February after a short illness.He was an expert on the application of technology to problems of...
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University of Oxford - Clash of ideas
Budding entrepreneurs battled it out at the University of Oxford's fifth annual Idea Idol competition. The contest, billed as part Dragons' Den and part Pop Idol, was held at the university's Said...
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Round Table invitees confused by Oxford 'link'
Critics say ORT does not make its lack of academic connection clear, writes Melanie Newman
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 1
The ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England ignored the results of the research assessment exercise when allocating funding for 2009-10 in English universities. This is shown by the correlation...
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Funding formula fails to offer fair rewards 2
Those of us at the University of Reading are naturally wondering just how we have arrived at this funding situation. We cannot escape the fact that we are proportionally the hardest hit "research-...