3 October 2013
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Ain’t No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why it Matters, by Judith A. Levine
Angelia R. Wilson on welfare, women and unresolved political tension
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The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London, by Hannah Greig
Clare Brant on the truly dedicated followers of 18th-century fashion
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US for-profits must up their game to regain lost ground
High tuition, bad press and recovering economy cited in falling student numbers
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Europe faces longer wait for single market in research
Academics still hidebound by national rules, Commission finds
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Australia’s Coalition to review demand-driven system
New government also aims to cut red tape
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News in brief - 3 October 2013
United StatesIll-fated ratingA credit ratings agency has downgraded a US university, citing loss of revenue from its hospital arm and cuts in federal funding among the reasons. Moody’s Investors...
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Academy and business aim to reforge language supply chain
Born Global research looks to bridge gap between supply and demand
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Will and representation
It was lovely to see an article on Just William (“Embrace a scruffy boy”, Culture, 19 September), but it behoves editors always to be wary of pieces that arrive with the tag, “no one has written...
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Dead ideas walking
“How a clergyman’s insights can answer panellists’ prayers” (Opinion, 19 September) by economists Andrew Oswald and Daniel Sgroi nicely illustrates what is wrong with economics today: a willingness...
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Vulcanised material
Martin Cohen’s review of If A then B: How the World Discovered Logic (Books, 19 September) suggests that its authors, Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White, want to put logic at “the heart of life”....
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Ways and memes
Like R. E. Rawles (Letters, 26 September), I was somewhat startled by Gerald J. Pillay’s reference to memes as “wildly imaginative” (in his review of Christianity and the University Experience:...
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Fractional exponent
Your recent news story indicated that 0.2 part-time contracts have risen by nearly two-thirds across the sector during the past two years (“‘Game’ of one-fifth? Part-time contracts rise in run-up to...
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Willetts looks to dismantle the ELQ bar
Minister points to ‘incremental’ removal and sounds warning over Labour fees policy
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Pre-£9K fees top income streams
The growing importance of tuition fee income for UK universities has been highlighted by Higher Education Statistics Agency data