Hefce’s days numbered if Lib Dems triumph
Manifesto targets ‘wasteful quango’ for the chop, announces phased abolition of tuition fees and promises end to 50 per cent participation target. Melanie Newman reports
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The Devil’s Dictionary
Feeling lost, angry, disenfranchised? Confused by the jargon overwhelming the academy? Philip Davies offers a handy print-out-and-keep guide to the evils of ‘edu-speak’
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Tories promise more university places and more freedom
Conservative Party’s 2010 general election manifesto also pledges to delay the REF and to consider the Browne review ‘carefully’
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British endowment slump outstrips US percentage losses
Income rise from all other sources overtaken by higher expenditure. Melanie Newman reports
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The part-time manifesto
Labour reaffirms STEM commitment but abandons 50 per cent participation in favour of 75 per cent objective via foundation degrees, apprenticeships and technical training. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Crumbs of comfort in a harsh climate
Average pay rise of 1.2% for US academics belies ‘continuing disinvestment’ in staff, says AAUP report. John Morgan writes
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Moody’s says relax
Credit ratings agency rejects talk of crisis in the academy and predicts resilience in the face of funding cuts. Melanie Newman reports
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Former ‘Billy no mates’ has his chance to shine
Twelve regional finalists compete to be International Student of the Year. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Par for the course
In pursuing excellence, whether in golf or in research, the time invested in training and preparation is vital. So how long should a master's degree be? asks Don Olcott Jr
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My eureka moment: Dispositions to lawlessness
Stephen Mumford describes two intellectual breakthroughs that breathed life into a moribund field and challenged the Newtonian world view
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The matrix recoded
Computing courses must address the fact that most IT failures are due to human error and management problems, says Darrell Ince
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Book of the week: The Marketplace of Ideas
Are US universities as good as they seem? Simon Baatz lauds an insightful analysis of their pros and cons
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Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment
Gerald Pillay applauds an argument against the increasing commercialisation of higher education
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Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Like the cops who chase the gangsters across New York in the 1948 film noir Naked City, Sharon Zukin travels from district to district, describing "How Brooklyn became cool", "Why Harlem is not a...
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The Canon: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. By Elinor Ostrom
It is more than 20 years since the United Nations' Brundtland Commission made the optimistic claim that "humanity has the ability to make development sustainable", and it has to be said that, at the...