How can universities support students to work harder?
A new generation of 鈥榙ual-intensive鈥 universities can do the job, argues Edward Acton
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Knowledge industry gets down to business
Universities will need to grasp the nettle of open learning if they are to survive. Tim Greenhalgh reports. Corporation campuses, the global academies, learning cultures, mutual profit were some of...
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From where I sit - P.S. Ich liebe dich
The German media have found themselves irresistibly attracted to a student who wants to turn flirting into a subject for academic analysis by introducing his own seminar on "live flirting training"...
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Appointments
University of HuddersfieldJohn PlayleThe new dean of human and health sciences at the University of Huddersfield joked that you can break yourself into the role by playing "the new person for the...
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Research Intelligence - Collaboration is an essential procedure
Researchers, industry and NHS must deliver results, Academy of Medical Sciences' head tells Paul Jump
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Letters
UK still suffers trips of the tonguesYour editorial 鈥淎 timely look under the bonnet鈥 (22聽August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As...
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Keep up the good work: Willetts
Wilson response sees limited role for Whitehall in industry/academy links. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Lecturer with MS takes Surrey to industrial tribunal
A disabled lecturer whose current contract was more than halved two years after he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis has taken his university to an industrial tribunal. George Mowat-Brown, 51, a...
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Appointments
University of LuxembourgLudwig NeysesA University of Manchester academic has been appointed vice-president for research at the University of Luxembourg. Ludwig Neyses, currently chair in medicine and...
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Africa鈥檚 mobile phone e-learning transformation
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education鈥檚 reach and quality?
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Raising the bars
Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education鈥檚 reach and quality? Chris Parr investigates
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A house divided can't stand
Fawzi Ibrahim implores the UCU to work collectively to save itself from political turmoil and financial meltdown
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Warwick's industry turns profit from academic expertise
Tony Tysome and Harriet Swain go in search of the Midlands, a region that is busy bridging an east-west divide, increasing participation rates and developing links The University of Warwick is...
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The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
How to establish a serious national tourist agenda when the most famous person associated with your country is not only someone you'd rather not be associated with but furthermore is fictional?...
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson