It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens, by Danah Boyd
Tara Brabazon on an attempt to capture and express the voice of young people
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Beyond Reason and Tolerance: The Purpose and Practice of Higher Education, by Robert J. Thompson, Jr.
In a utilitarian age, service learning helps cultivate rounded individuals, says Steven Schwartz
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The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists, by David Burke
Architecture meets social experiment in a Modernist block of flats, Flora Samuel writes
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Culture and the Death of God, by Terry Eagleton
The Mephistopheles of the anglophone intelligentsia ponders a God-shaped hole, leaving Fred Inglis exhilarated and maddened
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Funding sources for universities’ capital projects 2008-09 and 2012-13
The proportion of capital investment that universities financed using internal funds has leaped 20 per cent over the past four years, according to data released by the Higher Education Statistics...
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Repay ‘unlawful’ strike deductions, says UCU
Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout
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Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2014
Universities are working hard and succeeding in their aim to improve life for their students, as Times Higher Education’s Student Experience Survey results show
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Belarus takes Bologna path to come in from the cold
The former Soviet satellite is working to raise standards and to court foreign students
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Chinese universities beat US in income-related rankings
Universitas 21 grading introduces new measure of purchasing power
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Cavalier attitudes lead to uncivil practices in vivas
Susan Bassnett wonders why PhD examining is still so amateurish and inconsistent in English universities
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A student’s lecture to professors
Can students teach their lecturers a thing or two? Austin Fitzhenry thinks so
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Overseas fees of £11,000 ‘have little impact on demand’
Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey
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Animal testing agreement aims at more transparency
But animal rights group criticises move for not going far enough
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Social mobility debate ‘too focused on elite universities’
The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.
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Pfizer takeover bid: government ‘has looked at merger rules’ on science
But Cable warns that intervention options are constrained by law