'What can you do? We are just the puppets'
As the first undergraduates subject to England’s new higher fees regime acclimatise to campus life, Chris Parr talks to freshers across the capital about their reasons for going to university, how...
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UEL staff set to strike over workload changes
Lecturers at the University of East London are set to hold a one-day strike in a row over proposed changes to staff workloads.
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Hundreds of overseas students do not return to London Met
Fewer than 45 per cent of continuing overseas students at London Metropolitan University have committed to stay with the troubled institution, given the choice of staying or transferring elsewhere.
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Chairman of ABS attacks STEM "tyranny"
The chairman of the Association of Business Schools has attacked the "misplaced tyranny" that science, technology, engineering and maths subjects have in policymaking circles and argued that...
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Two US academics win economics Nobel
Two American academics have won the Nobel Prize in economics for work that has led to more efficient ways of matching doctors with hospitals and organ donors with transplant patients.
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Inside Higher Ed: Disappearing Liberal Arts Colleges
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Painful conditionality
"Organisational effectiveness is not viewed as simply foregrounding cost savings, but instead a much more complex interplay of influences and drivers that facilitate opportunities for enhancing the...
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UK viewed as safest place to study, says report
Despite the riots that swept English cities in August 2011, the UK is seen as the safest place to study by international students, according to a new British Council report.
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UCU decides against industrial action over pay
University lecturers will not join industrial action later this month over a 1 per cent pay offer after members voted against a strike.
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Swansea Met and Trinity Saint David formally merge
Students should not notice any difference at Swansea Metropolitan University despite it officially merging with another institution, the university's outgoing vice-chancellor has said.
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New Regius professorships to mark Jubilee
The Queen will award up to six Regius professorships to UK universities to mark the Diamond Jubilee, the Cabinet Office announced today.
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The Quest for Prosperity: How Developing Economies Can Take Off
Howard Davies on an industrial strategy that could help the Third World catch up with the West
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A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Cartographic depictions of Earth must be viewed in their cultural context, finds Imre Josef Demhardt
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John Keats: A New Life
In the peaceful "English Cemetery" in Rome, where John Keats is buried, the steady supply of unwilted cut flowers that rest at the poet's grave might be taken as indicative of the legions of readers...
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Judaism: All That Matters
Keith Kahn-Harris, who has written much on heavy metal and other contemporary musical tastes, has also written much on British Jewry. In this short volume he offers an overview of Judaism worldwide,...