Cable holds firm to appoint Ebdon
Les Ebdon has been formally appointed as the new director of fair access, with business secretary Vince Cable telling the parliamentary committee that rejected him there were no “new, relevant facts...
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Private firm extends student accommodation empire
A private company that specialises in long-term multi-million pound deals to build and run student facilities has extended its reach in the sector with a new £57.2 million contract with Nottingham...
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UUK fails in bid for amendment to FoI Act
The government has rejected calls for an amendment to the Freedom of Information Act that would specifically exempt pre-publication research data from release.
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Legal challenge to fees hike fails
Two teenagers have lost their legal battle against the increase in tuition fees this year.
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‘Consensus statement’ on research integrity released
The UK Research Integrity Office has welcomed calls for it to be placed at the centre of a toughened research integrity oversight regime in the UK.
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Payback time as Tories win student loans concession
Students will not be penalised for paying back their tuition fees early, the government has indicated.
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Turn on, tune in, don't drop out
The first months at university are critical for a happy student experience. Indeed, so crucial are they that they are arguably a key focus of QAA reviews. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Sage advice
Close ties with Nobel laureates, global entrepreneurs and distinguished academics can boost an institution's international profile, as well as providing fresh insights, experience - and a hint of...
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What Are Universities For?, by Stefan Collini
Fred Inglis applauds a polemic on higher education's purpose and the perils it faces
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Galla Placidia: The Last Roman Empress
Judith Weingarten is fascinated by the woman who, amid decline and fall, ruled an empire for 12 years
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The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
In Susan Hill's superlative ghost story The Small Hand, a London book dealer named Adam travels on behalf of a wealthy client to a remote French monastery in search of Shakespeare's First Folio. Hill...
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Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes
In our troubled times, there is much to learn from John Maynard Keynes' approach to understanding and remedying the problems of stagnating economies and unstable financial systems.Interest in Keynes...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
An investigation into our behaviour shows we're not as logical as we imagine, Miriam Teschl discovers
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Mediating Climate Change
Julie Doyle used to study techniques for the visualisation of the body in the context of anatomy; in her spare time she was a Greenpeace campaigner. This book blends those preoccupations: it asks how...
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Stravinsky's Ballets
Igor Stravinsky's stature as one of the most influential composers of the modern era seems all but incontestable, and Charles Joseph's study accordingly situates its subject as the 20th-century...