01 February 2012 12:00 AM
The UK's biggest developer of student accommodation shrugged off news of falling university applications yesterday as a chronic shortage of higher education places allows it to push up rents.
04 October 2011 10:48 AM
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11 August 2011 11:45 AM
Is the long reign of the weighty academic tome nearing its end?
11 August 2011 11:36 AM
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07 June 2011 10:22 AM
My father’s an academic, so I could never get away with suggesting the internet could ever replace the spark you get from a teacher or professor. But he’d be the first to agree that education is key to unlocking opportunity.
07 June 2011 10:17 AM
06 May 2011 12:28 PM
If we all stop overfilling our kettles and instead boil only the water we need, in a year we will save enough electricity to run the UK’s street lighting for nearly two months. But how can we be persuaded to change our behaviour?
06 April 2011 11:38 AM
28 February 2011 11:59 PM
In the middle of this month the 2011 census forms will drop through the letterbox of every household in the UK, asking us about who we are and what we do. It is an operation that authorities have worked hard to perfect over the 200 years or more that the census has run for.
01 February 2011 10:28 AM
At the start of 2011, when Tunisians rose up against their failed government, they stayed in the streets until all its key members had left. Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi’s plea to retain some ministers, because they alone knew how to run the system, won little sympathy. An angry public saw no reason why any incompetents from the old regime should survive into the new.
07 September 2010 12:00 AM
On 15 September, the Open University, in collaboration with the Serious Games Institute, will host a 24-hour conference. Opening in Hong Kong, the focus will shift to Europe as the eastern evening meets the UK morning, handing over at our sundown for a final eight hours on the US western coast. Despite crossing many time zones during the day, conference chairs and delegates will meet at a single location, and never have to leave the comfort of their own armchairs.
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