Wendy Surridge, 1960-2012
A "fun-loving" university administrator who spearheaded the expansion of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has died.Wendy Surridge was born in Beckenham, Kent on 28 July 1960...
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University College LondonRichly altruisticAn experiment has provided evidence that people living in richer areas are more likely to behave altruistically. A team of researchers from the anthropology...
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Go to university? It's not worth it
One in two people believe a university education is not worth £9,000 a year, a poll has found.
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Inside Higher Ed: Sodom, Gomorrah…Yale?
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Unions left 'in the dark' over outsource plans
Senior management at a university have been accused of keeping staff "in the dark" about plans to outsource some support services.
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Home Office 'to strip' London Met of highly trusted status
London Metropolitan University is to lose its licence to teach foreign students, it has been reported, becoming the first UK university to be stripped of its Highly Trusted Sponsor status by the UK...
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Unison set to open strike ballot over 1% pay offer
The higher education sector's second biggest union is to ballot for strike action over the 1 per cent pay offer from universities.
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Large rise in English students going to Scottish universities
Scottish universities have seen an increase of more than 26 per cent in the number of English students accepting places, according to the latest admissions data.
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Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject
The 'lone genius' relies on others, says Jon Turney, our most famous living thinker particularly so
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Odd Couples: Friendships at the Intersection of Gender and Sexual Orientation
Can women and men be friends, not just across gender lines but also the Rubicon of sexual orientation? Can straight men be besties with lesbians; can straight women pal up properly with gays? The...
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Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles
Amid the repressive anos de chumbo ("leaden years") of the Brazilian dictatorship that held power from 1968 to 1975, visual artists developed innovative aesthetics and forms of artwork while creating...
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Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox
Star who worked hard on understanding herself and others deserves better, opines Mary Evans
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The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?
Pity the poor musicologist, until relatively recently able to preside with impunity over fiefdoms of specialist know-ledge but now required to know the distinguishing nuances of sludge, black or doom...
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Governing Post-War Britain: The Paradoxes of Progress, 1951-1973
The period covered by Governing Post-War Britain is that of "the long boom", a period of economic success. But by the 1970s, the British people, although doing better, were feeling worse. That is the...