Scholar fears widening-participation funding will be cut
The funding premium awarded in the largest sums to new universities to help them attract and support poorer students could be discontinued, a leading education expert has warned.
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LSE scholar admits race analysis was 'flawed'
Evolutionary psychologist issues mea culpa in wake of critical LSE inquiry. Jack Grove writes
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Academic efficiency drive may put Toyota at the wheel
Universities UK study highlights ways to streamline services and reduce costs. John Morgan reports
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Call for greater flexibility on retirement
Universities must stop using retirement age as a crude performance management tool as they face up to changing life cycles and the end of the default retirement age of 65.The argument was made by...
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Post-1992 campuses 'to be hit hardest by fees rise'
Number of students aspiring to attend newer universities 'could halve'. David Matthews writes
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Cheap-places policy may obstruct Cable's bridge-building plans
Vice-chancellors rehearse their objections to 'risky' White Paper proposals, writes Simon Baker
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Visa reform questioned again as passage from India shows signs of blockage
Fresh worries have been raised that visa reforms could be damaging the ability of UK universities to recruit students from overseas after more evidence emerged of a large drop in demand from India.
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Neutral value for Treasury adviser
Department's first scientific chief sets out his stall firmly in the middle of the road. Paul Jump reports
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Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
Degas may be long dead, but his figures move through time to remind us of the beauty of his work and its visceral power, writes Michael Howard
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LondonHamra Abbas: CitiesKuwaiti-born artist Hamra Abbas was educated in Lahore and Berlin, and now divides her time between Boston and Islamabad. The works on display at the Green Cardamom gallery...
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The Pick - Life and Fate
Credit: BBC/Estate of Vasily GrossmanFirst-hand experience: Vasily Grossman's manuscript was "arrested"Life and FateBBC Radio 4The Archers is sacrosanct. But from Sunday 18 September until a week...
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Big Poppleton welcome for new UUK approach
Kirk Swavely, our Senior Manager of External Relations, has welcomed the "brave" policy stance recently adopted by Eric Thomas, the new president of Universities UK.Swavely told our reporter Keith...
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TV reviews: Are You Good or Evil? & Appropriate Adult
Finding a gene for psychopathy does not help us face depravity beyond comprehension, says Gary Day
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Film review: Bill Cunningham New York
Duncan Wu is charmed by a modest octogenarian photographer and the vivid street style he documents
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Geoffrey Ford, 1942-2011
In addition to being a distinguished librarian, Geoffrey Ford was also famed for his "astoundingly untidy" office and formidable collection of Rudyard Kipling books.Born in 1942, Mr Ford studied...