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Robert Gordon UniversityStephen VertigansRobert Gordon University has appointed Stephen Vertigans head of the School of Applied Social Studies. Professor Vertigans took up the role full time last...
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Lion rampant, sleeping dragon
On most indices, a comparison of the Welsh and Scottish academies shows that the latter holds the aces. As the Saltire soars, will mergers allow Wales to cope with the shock waves generated by...
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5 July 2012
Overtaking the Joneses - Scots triumph in Celtic comparison
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With all due disrespect
Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto urges students to take on tutors in a war of ideas
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David Bailey's East End
From the swinging Sixties of Shrimpton and the Krays to the 2012 Games, David Bailey鈥檚 eye captures ever-mutable London
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Cogitate, don't regurgitate
George MacDonald Ross argues that to stamp out plagiarism, we must create an environment in which students are forced to think for themselves, while Jude Carroll has practical advice on redesigning...
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Haggling over the cost of gold (1 of 2)
As a funder dedicated to ensuring that the research we support generates the maximum possible benefit for society, the Wellcome Trust strongly supports the proposed direction set out by the Working...
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Haggling over the cost of gold (2 of 2)
I fear that if we move to the gold open-access model, it will be disproportionately harmful to researchers outside large groups and to more junior members of staff who are less able to afford the...
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Sabine MacCormack, 1941-2012
A historian of "exuberant energies", equally at home in the worlds of ancient Rome and colonial Latin America, has died.Sabine MacCormack was born in Frankfurt on 24 February 1941 and studied...
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Campus round-up
Uclan/Manchester MetropolitanUdderly uniqueArchaeology students have excavated an example of a woman buried with a cow. The students from the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester...
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Grand fee paid for each foreign student
色盒直播 investigation shows almost 拢60m spent on agents鈥 commissions. David Matthews reports
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Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results, 2008
As the findings of the final research assessment exercise are released, Times Higher Education has devised tables of excellence to rank institutions according to their subject successes and their...
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Metrics critic's marching orders
Queen Mary makes Fanis Missirlis, persistent thorn in management鈥檚 side, redundant
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Willetts praises UK鈥檚 role in search for Higgs boson
The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a 鈥渂reakthrough in world science鈥, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.