Generation Y are failing to put money where their mouths are
Alan Ruby wishes students would use their economic clout in a more politically and morally meaningful way than purchasing organic burritos
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On the rise: spending on R&D in the UK
About £7.6 billion worth of research and development was carried out in higher education in 2013
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Queen Mary to open private medical school in Malta
London institution to charge students £25,000 a year to study at Gozo institute
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Licence absurdity
The proposal by the Higher Education Policy Institute for a UK national open access licence was announced on 30 March. If only Hepi had delayed the announcement by two days, it could have been...
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Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes, by Andrew Brooks
A wide-ranging examination of garment recycling should whet the appetite of readers for more research on the subject, says Ruth Pearson
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Expenses claim
Lincoln Allison remembers when senior academics and vice-chancellors led a relatively ascetic existence and compares it with today when many v-cs are paid salaries similar to those of chief...
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Success, past and present
I read with interest the letter from Paul Whiteley on the Higher Education Funding Council for England research funding allocations, and offer the following observations (“Funding allocations: a...
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Calling off Israel event is setback for freedom
The decision of the University of Southampton to cancel a conference that was to have been held later this month under the auspices of its school of law amounts to a massive setback for academic...
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The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments, by Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth
Thomas Docherty on a study of the academy today and working conditions
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Why journals should not forget their past
Scientific publishing has a noble history of tolerating tiny profits. We need a bit more of that spirit today, suggests Aileen Fyfe
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Digital aids: students reveal ‘benefits’ of technology
High-tech resources are yet to transform the nature of university learning, and often it is the ‘mundane’ use of technologies that aid study
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Why bombs cannot strip Gaza of intellectual life
Writer and scholar Atef Abu Saif tells John Elmes how life goes on despite death from above
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Philosophy’s forgotten women
Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history
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9 April 2015
Altered state - Drugs on campus from psychedelia to responsible research
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Interview: the “philosopher president” of Uruguay
Martin McQuillan meets José Mujica to discuss education and philosophy