Collective memory and the First World War
A. W. Purdue on the battles among academics over the conflict’s place in history

A. W. Purdue on the battles among academics over the conflict’s place in history

Warmth and compassion override the wretchedness in an authentic portrayal of illegal immigrants trying to enter the US, says Philip Kemp

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signals that it may remove sub-degree qualifications from the higher education budget

Six academics share their experiences of university life overseas

David Matthews finds government is excluding signalling in its calculations on a degree’s worth

Expectations of fast track to graduate-level job are overoptimistic, suggests report

Institutions still ‘lag well behind’ US counterparts, which are piling on funds

Mary Curnock Cook on what reform in England could mean for admissions

University Alliance says repayment period of 15 years under HELP UK system could plug black hole in funding system

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The second vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey, who steered his institution through the upheavals of the 1980s, has died

We speak to professor of meteorology at the University of Reading and chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London

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