Regent鈥檚 clashes with US evangelists over title
Religious body seeks secular redress for 鈥榯rademark infringement鈥

Religious body seeks secular redress for 鈥榯rademark infringement鈥

After the hype is over, e-learning will be the norm, predicts Stephen Haggard

Knowledge transferSharpening the scalpelDavid Willetts, the universities and science minister, met with business leaders and academics at the University of Leeds last week to discuss the government鈥檚...

Q-Step programme at 15 universities set to improve social science students鈥 expertise

US colleges and universities are聽once again facing scores of applications for incoming classes, but this year the process is more complicated. The US Supreme Court鈥檚 decision last June in the case of...

Cancer Research WalesAward winner: Ramsay McFarlaneInstitution: Bangor UniversityValue: 拢99,815Application of systematic genome scale analysis of germ line genes: biomarker and oncogenic potential聽...

Canada鈥檚 early literary and scientific history owes much to聽two British-born sisters who emigrated to what is now Ontario in 1832

Programme may make university-based training financially unviable, says Peter Strike

Massive increase in enrolment since 2007
The Poppletonian article about music lyrics, assessment and feedback (26 September) brought to mind the Gershwin classic: 鈥淪ummative and the learning is easy.鈥滿ichael CunninghamUniversity of...
The launch of FutureLearn is timely (鈥淯K鈥檚 latecomer to Mooc party aims to cut some rug聽with social moves鈥, News, 19聽September). Despite being the home of The Open University, the UK has seen the...

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Source: AlamyRing of bright waterPhotographic proof has been found that otters have returned to a tributary of the River Thames in the South East of England. A鈥塒hD student at the University of Surrey...

A plant biologist and 鈥淩enaissance man鈥 who played a key role in implementing major changes at the University of California, Berkeley has died

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