Grant winners
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCILThe MRC is providing about ?7 million to establish three regional hubs that will give UK researchers access to high-throughput DNA sequencing machines. The cutting-edge...
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Find me a fundraiser
The assertion that there are too many Americans in UK university development offices misses the point ("Americans are 'taking over'?", 11 September).Professionals from the other side of the Atlantic...
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Book of the week: Replenishing the Earth
Donald MacRaild admires a novel account of the rise of the Anglo-world
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Superpowers lose ground as balance of power shifts
'Redistribution of brains' on cards as US and UK struggle to cope with the recession, writes Phil Baty
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BA-ESRC initiative
The British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council have announced a new joint scheme to fund visiting fellowships. The fellowships, which will be for a minimum of two months, aim to...
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The week in books
Teenagers: A Natural History by David Bainbridge, university clinical veterinary anatomist, University of Cambridge. Portobello Books, ?13.99, ISBN 97818461212"The selling point is that David...
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From where I sit - Don't join ghostwriters in the lie
A relative in his early thirties about to finish an economics degree has told me that cheating at universities is rampant.Plagiarism is commonplace and many students buy essays and submit them as...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILThe AHRC research grants schemes are intended to support well-defined research projects to enable individuals to collaborate with, and bring benefits to, other...
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1984: It's coming
In the 25 years since the iconic film adaptation of George Orwell's dystopia, US society has crept ever closer to its bleak vision of paranoia, surveillance, perpetual war and unthinkingness, fears...
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Defiant Publics: The Unprecedented Reach of the Global Citizen
Daniel Drache, professor of political science at York University in Toronto, describes recent developments in activism connected to the internet and communications revolution in a book that new...
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The long march
China is hungry for Western-style universities, not least to fuel its economy. Phil Baty reports on the efforts to uproot corruption and bureaucracy and build a dynamic and vibrant world-class system
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Excellence in the round
This year our rankings show not only the top institutions but also the strongest countries in higher education, says Martin Ince
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The book of the week: The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East
Radhakrishnan Nayar on 'de-Westernisation'
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Bittersweet birthday cheer
John Ashworth wonders whether Cara's 75th anniversary is really a cause for celebration or a reason for reflection
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From where I sit - New hopes raise old questions
When the creation of a university for 5,000 students makes headlines in an area of the world where 90 per cent of the billion-strong population do not have access to higher education, cynics must...