Farce majeure
The campus novel is a proud tributary of the comic flow of English letters. From Amis to Bradbury and from the page to the TV screen, the academy has proved to be a superior source for humour - but...
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Suu Kyi collects doctorate at belated Oxford homecoming
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford during a ceremony at the institution’s Sheldonian Theatre.
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Exam watchdog publishes proposals on A-level oversight
A-level courses could require a stamp of approval by learned societies or “a subgroup of universities” under plans put forward by the exam regulator Ofqual.
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Welsh plan to boost employability launched
The Welsh government has drafted a 63-point plan to bolster the employability of the country’s university graduates.
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Push for gold will cost millions, open-access report says
A transition to full open-access publishing will cost UK higher education an extra £50 million or £60 million a year, according to a long-awaited report on how the country should make the change.
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Government defends reforms in long-awaited response to committee
The government has defended the public financing of for-profit higher education providers and has said that it wants widening participation funding to be “better targeted”.
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Inside Higher Ed: A professor’s cri de coeur
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Open-access advocate leads honours list
A mathematician who led the boycott in the UK of a major publisher over the issue of open access and a vice-chancellor who served on the Browne Review are among the higher education figures...
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Green light for world’s biggest telescope
The world’s largest telescope is a step closer to being built after organisers gave the go-ahead to its plans at a meeting last week.
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Loans system can’t go on like this, senior figures say
The new student loans system designed by the government to support higher tuition fees is “unsustainable in the long term”, according to a survey of senior figures in higher education conducted by...
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UCLan v-c to retire after 14 years at the helm
The vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire, Malcolm McVicar, is to step down after more than 14 years in charge at the institution.
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Stay sharp – upheaval may be far from over, says 1994 Group chief
The next government spending review and general election could bring changes for universities that would make recent reforms look like “marginal tinkering”, the new head of a mission group has warned.
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Die hard copy
It's a digital world, isn't it? Not for all: the paperless future has yet to arrive and there is a pulp faction in the academy still wedded to print. Matthew Reisz reports
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
Polly Jones is fascinated by a remarkable romance that endured a brutal, brutalising confinement
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The Rise and Decline of the American "Empire": Power and its Limits in Comparative Perspective
W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman's classic 1930 interpretation of history, 1066 and All That, concludes by saying that after the Great War "America became Top Nation and history came to a full stop"....