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INDIAN PM CRITICISES STATE OF ACADEME Most of India's universities are "below average", according to the nation's prime minister, Manmohan Singh. Speaking at Mumbai University, Mr Singh called for an...
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The long and the short of it
Britain's one-year masters is proving a sticking point in the Bologna Process, but the equivalence issue is raising difficult questions about length of study for other degrees, too. Hannah Fearn...
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Bastions of Britishness
Jeffrey Richards revels in Piers Brendon's vivid evocation of a liberal Empire with an irreconcilable paradox at its heart.
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THE Awards 2008 - part 2
Outstanding Support for disabled StudentsBrunel UniversityBrunel's Disability and Dyslexia Service set up support services for students with learning differences and for those with mental-health...
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Don't 'panic' over science-shy Britons, ESRC says
Britain is gripped by an unfounded "moral panic" that it needs to produce more home-grown science graduates to keep the economy competitive, the director of a six-year, ?5 million science and society...
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Grant winners
The British Academy2008 Postdoctoral FellowshipsForty-nine 2008 Postdoctoral Fellowships have been awarded by the British Academy across the humanities and social sciences, of which twelve are listed...
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US and UK fill top 10 places
The World University Rankings 2007 are online here Martin Ince reveals the winners and losers in The Times Higher -QS World University Rankings 2007. The world's top ten universities are in the UK or...
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A flaming injustice that destroys our records
Books on Fire
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Put that in your pipe and drink it
Humankind worked something of a miracle in the second half of the 20th century. Population trebled, and water consumption increased in proportion. The limits of our resources were tested. But we...
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Accurately target foreign students or lose, sector told
Conference hears that the right pitch is key in luring demanding overseas 'consumers'. John Gill reports
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Talking their way into a job in Malaysia
One IT institute’s dialogue with industry helps guarantee work for its graduates In a business park in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, employers are beating down the door of a university to get their hands...
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Seats of learning
Anyone who feels that research isn't glamorous clearly isn't working at the University of West of England or University College London. The two institutions announced this week that they have forged...
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Seismic Threat to World Outlined style 1
After nearly a decade of work, an international team of earthquake scientists has produced the first estimates of seismic hazard levels for the entire world.At a meeting of the American Geophysical...
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Immortal fame set in a golden afterlife
The Boy behind the Mask
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World encompassed
Asian English-taught courses growing A growing number of university courses in Asia are being taught in English, a paper from an international higher education research organisation has said. The...