At Britain's independent University of Buckingham, the vice-chancellor, Terence Kealey, cheekily welcomed the spending cuts and the two-year undergraduate degree courses that may result.
Other recent intra-national mergers of European schools, such as between Henley and the University of Reading in Britain, have not only had the benefit of economies of scale and complimentary areas of strength, but also of proximity.
At least two of Britain's best university fund-raisers, at the London School of Economics and at Bristol University, are American imports.
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In addition, he brought in the Open University, kept Britain out of the Vietnam War and won four general elections between 1964 and 74.
Dr. Glen Newey, a professor of politics at Britain's Keele University, told CNN that politicians telling whoppers often act as barometers of functioning democracy, indicating that a demanding press and public are capable of steering politicians into stormy seas.
Though here's their favorite place inside you, says microbiologist Glenn Gibson of the University of Reading in Britain.
"Onset of forearm pain was related to the level of satisfaction with support from supervisors and colleagues, " writes lead researcher, Gary Macfarlane of the University of Manchester in Britain.
With many predicting the extinction of thousands of species, Bob Smith, a researcher in conservation at the University of Kent in Britain, argues that targeting individual species is too narrow.
"At these rates, it certainly sounds like we'll end up towards the high end of the emission scenarios considered by the IPCC, " commented Myles Allen from Oxford University, one of Britain's leading climate modellers.
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The design by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in America and the University of Cambridge in Britain, made in collaboration with companies including Boeing and Rolls-Royce, eliminates this disruption by smoothing the air flow.
In Britain, Steve Young of Lancaster University and Dennis Oswald of the London Business School found an unusual concentration of external shareholders (ie, fewer insiders, more institutions) among firms announcing buybacks, and also spotted a link to better corporate governance.
The number of university students in Britain rose by 5% between 2003 and 2007.
While Dr Koza's simulated circuits are recognisable variations on human inventions, Adrian Thompson of Sussex University in Britain has evolved a circuit that is literally incomprehensible.
The third sub-question of how life managed to get going at all in the hostile arena of the early Earth, was neatly addressed by Charles Cockell, of Britain's Open University.
In this week's Science, Jonathan Knight and his colleagues at the University of Bath, in Britain, report the production of an optical fibre that guides light using this phenomenon.
But Callum Roberts, an expert on marine reserves at the University of York, in Britain, points out that once a species is gone completely, it may take a long time to return.
The first, from a group led by Penelope Whitehorn and David Goulson of the University of Stirling, in Britain, examined the effects these insecticides have on bumblebees, which are closely related to honeybees.
However, a study of Britain's New Deal policies by Duncan McVicar of Queen's University, Belfast, and Jan Podivinsky of the University of Southampton reaches the opposite conclusion.
This now accounts for a growing share of university research funds some 30% of the total in Britain, 15% in the Netherlands.
Britain's Oxford University used to nurture one of the longest traditions of anti-entrepreneurial prejudice in the world.
That is a question addressed by Isabelle Dean and Michael Siva-Jothy of Sheffield University, in Britain, in a paper in Biology Letters.
Simon Chesterman, a law professor at the National University of Singapore, notes that Britain's tough Official Secrets Act would also outlaw WikiLeaks' actions.
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The former Bristol University student, a citizen of Britain and Australia, was arrested last year in the town of Tachilek, on Burma's border with Thailand.
Daniel Nettle, of the Open University in Britain, has done so.
In the crucial area of corporate transparency, says Michael Levi, professor of criminology at the University of Cardiff, Jersey and Guernsey have tighter controls than Britain, where it is possible to conceal the identity of the beneficial owner of a company.
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The first to get his retaliation in was John Murray, of the Open University, in Britain.
But Indrajit Ray, professor of economics at Britain's Birmingham University, says actively campaigning for the job may not be a good idea.
Britain now puts more of its young people through university than most other countries, but some employers claim that the quality of graduates has declined as the quantity has increased.
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