Manchester wins record fourth University Challenge title
The University of Manchester has equalled the record for University Challenge wins after beating University College London in last night’s final
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Euro Mooc opens up for business
The first pan-European massive open online course initiative has been launched by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.
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Inside Higher Ed: ‘Advantage’ for Chinese Applicants?
Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Birkbeck tributes to "jazzy, snazzy, complete historian" Hobsbawm
A celebration of the life and influence of legendary historian Eric Hobsbawm, who died last October at the age of 95, brought out family, friends and fellow scholars in force at Birkbeck, University...
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Postgraduate diversity "not good enough", figures show
Fewer than ten graduates each from Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi minority groups make the transition to a research degree each academic year, a study has found.
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THE podcast: 25 April 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe trials of a PhD viva, the UK’s slow move towards a grade-point average degree clasification system, and university mergers all feature on this Times Higher Education...
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
Sheila Rowbotham on a crisp portrait of a restless thinker who was neither infallible nor prophetic
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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On your Marx
Sheila Rowbotham on a portrait of a thinker who was neither infallible nor entirely prophetic
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REF request denied
Paul Magrs was flabbergasted when an institution he had left almost a decade before and had not heard from since asked to use his work to demonstrate impact in the REF. Here, he sets down the...
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Do you think this is working?
The viva, the final hurdle to gaining a PhD, is labour-intensive, not conducted to any national standard and is dreaded by students who fear an examiner will capriciously halt their career. Is it...
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Campus round-up
Fit to printA group of illustration students are bringing traditional printmaking skills back to the defunct press room of a local newspaper. The former press room at the Bournemouth Echo building,...
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Thatcher’s academic paradox
Margaret Thatcher was committed to freedom, but under her reign state power over universities increased. Vernon Bogdanor assesses her legacy to education
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Malcolm Gillies - Saga holidays
Malcolm Gillies discusses Parsifal and Wagner’s bicentenary
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Toby Miller shakily recalls an airborne brush with terror
Toby Miller recalls a paralysing encounter with terror in the skies and asks: in my shoes, would you have reacted differently?