Freedom in federation
More important than whether UCL and Imperial merge is whether they remain part of the University of London, argues Graham Zellick. Mergers are not new in the University of London. Over the past...
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Cost of merger is more than fees
If UCL and Imperial merge, it could spell the end for some of London's smaller colleges, warns Geoffrey Alderman. The proposal made by its rector Sir Richard Sykes, that Imperial College should...
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Salford airs fears after fire
After a fire destroyed part of its chemistry building on Sunday night, Salford University has urged fire-service unions to agree to respond to incidents in public institutions in the event of a...
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UK science 'unsustainable'
The Cross Cutting Review of Science and Research published this week describes the research funding situation in UK universities as "unsustainable in the medium to long term". It also warns that any...
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Imperial costs most in market
The market-rate tuition fee for a science degree is more than £10,000 a year at ten universities in the UK. The revelation comes a week after Imperial College, London, approved proposals to charge...
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Film refreshments
The Moving Image
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Witness to all ways of life
Ethnography
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Beware, globe shrinking
Global Social Policy
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Gaze of our lives
Qualitative Research
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Softly rubbing Aladdin's lamp
Middle Eastern Literatures
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Be sure to pack for a full-body experience
Tourist Studies
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Can archaeology lie in 'My Bed'?
Journal of Social Archaeology
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a late work by a novelist with Communist sympathies: "Castle, ever since he had joined the firm as a...
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In defence of art criminals
Transgressions
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Lost chance to hold up a mirror
Marcel Proust