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John Sperling, 1921-2014
An iconoclastic educator at the heart of the movement to create for-profit universities has died
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Q&A with Sarah Churchwell
We speak to the Man Booker prize judge and professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia
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World in brief - 11 September 2014
United StatesMobile phones: the ‘invisible addiction’Female students in the US spend an average of 10 hours a day on their mobile phone, while their male counterparts rack up nearly eight, a study at...
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News in brief - 11 September 2014
Horizon2020Oh, where are the humanities?There has been a “systematic failure” to integrate humanities into the societal challenges section of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research programme,...
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Salary Spartacus
I was surprised and delighted to see in your article “Bands of gold: salaries by academic rank” (News, 4 September) that, among the group of vice-chancellors and principals, there is at least one...
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No easy landing for jet set
It appears that freshers with a spare £25,000 can spend it “on a private jet to arrive at university” (The Week in Higher Education, 4 September). I assume that those landing at the University of...
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PhD positives
As a final-year PhD student at the University of Manchester I felt the need to respond to the rather negative portrayal of PhD study previously highlighted (“This far, and no further?”, Features, 14...
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The burden of caring
While the article “Home truths” (Features, 4 September), which explored the struggle to balance an academic career and parenthood, was interesting, a great many words have already been devoted to the...
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Primitive culture
The experience of Jason Haye (“UCS ‘unhealthy for a black student’: graduate”, News, 28 August) is an unusual one, linked to a one-off incident. But it also raises a serious issue about higher...
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The week in higher education - 11 September 2014
The University of Edinburgh has been warned to “think carefully” about its relationship with a “shadowy” social club, the Edinburgh News reported on 4 September. Edinburgh is already under fire after...
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Majority of research funding goes to minority of institutions
71 per cent went to 31 universities because of ‘narrowed’ definitions of excellence, claims report
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EU nationals claiming living cost support
The number of students from Europe who claim living cost support from the Student Loans Company has almost doubled over the past three years. About 22,800 EU nationals got the funding in 2012-13, up...