College anger grows over 'attempts to dictate fees'
Universities are accused of a lack of respect in the row over partnerships. Hannah Fearn reports
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Research fundingCuts could hit charity investmentFurther government cuts to research funding could have a damaging effect on charity-funded research, Cancer Research UK has warned. A report by the...
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The glitter meets the grim reality
A football project is inspiring homeless men to improve their health. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Grandes écoles, grand designs: France told to think global
Clea Caulcutt on elite group chief's contentious plans to attract high-fee-paying foreign students
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL• Award winner: Steven Hooper• Institution: University of East Anglia• Value: £644,933Fijian art: political power, sacred value, social transformation and...
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Producers, not consumers
Peter Geoghegan lauds an HEA-funded project that aims to correct the commodification of the academic experience
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Égalité and higher fees: French lessons for the English revolution
Sciences Po shows that massive tuition-fee rises can be used to underwrite efforts to widen participation, Peter Gumbel writes
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Star signs and bad omens
Our willingness to end funding for 2* work bodes ill for the future of research at elites and new universities alike, says Michael Rayner
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Unexpurgated version
Debowdlerising a text to reveal the writer's 'original' intentions is not as simple as it might seem, Josephine Guy argues
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Diary
ManchesterThe 21st Century Library: A Physical or Virtual Place?If books are on the way out, do we still need libraries as key physical landmarks within our cities and learning communities? Although...
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Saving our bacon
In a move that Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, described as "profoundly logical", the Department of Social Sciences at our university will soon be merged with the Department...
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Gordon Stone, 1925-2011
Gordon Stone is remembered as an inspirational, competitive, driven chemist who had a "boyish enthusiasm" for his subject and a strong desire to help his co-workers achieve their best - something...
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TV review: What's the Point of Forgiveness?
Gary Day finds that forgiveness can be a recreation of ourselves and of those whom have done us harm
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Film review: Hanna
A teenage girl assassin and out-of-control technology serve to amuse but also irritate, surmises Duncan Wu
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Mission creep as US spends, spends, spends on the extras
Study rejects claim that sector allocates more to education than it receives in fees. Jon Marcus writes