Alternatives to 9k cap ‘would not cost more’, says report
Lowering tuition fees to £6,000 – a policy put forward by Labour - could cost the Treasury the same as the current £9,000 set-up, a study has claimed.
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THE podcast: 23 May 2013 issue review
Download the podcastBrian Sewell’s cover feature on the edifying effect of studying art history, the implications of moving medical research and education budgets across Whitehall, and the value of...
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23 May 2013
Historical perspective - Brian Sewell on the edifying effect of studying art’s past masters.
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‘Graduate premium’ is shrinking fast
Essex scholar Malcolm Brynin points to worsening odds on university ‘gamble’
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Snap decisions
Getting image permissions for monographs is costly, slow and vexing
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Why hiring academics should not be left to other academics
Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic
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Futurelearn plans Moocs for mobiles
UK-based provider is readying itself for launch in the autumn
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‘Unijam’ strikes mass chord at University of South Australia
New v-c aims to crowdsource strategy via online meet-up
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Take the rough with the smooth
Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour
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The Unpredictable Species: What Makes Humans Unique by Philip Lieberman
Kerstin Hoge probes an account of mental creativity that takes no prisoners
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‘Something new in freedom’
Alastair Bonnett visits Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, a cooperative, free university attempting to build a different kind of knowledge economy
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What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France by Mary Louise Roberts
Fiona Reid on the military life’s inherent brutality
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Psychiatry’s cause for anxiety
Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz
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Brian Sewell: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian Sewell