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Funding cuts, how not to write a PhD thesis and the Browne review’s research were among the most popular stories with readers of our website in 2011.Our annual round-up of vice-chancellors' pay and...
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Overseas student safety in spotlight after Indian postgrad murder
The murder of an Indian postgraduate student has prompted calls for a report to “reassure” overseas students over their safety in the UK.Anuj Bidve, 23, who was studying micro-electronics at...
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Higher education figures recognised in New Year honours
Three British Nobel Prize winners head the list of academics recognised in this year’s New Year honours list.Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, both professor of physics at University of Manchester...
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Postgrad disputes mark in ‘anti-Israel’ row
An Israeli postgraduate student is claiming victory on her dissertation regrade after alleging her supervisor had “anti-Israel” prejudices.A complaint by Smadar Bakovic, 35, who lives near Jerusalem...
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BIS research to study private providers
The government will commission research to give “a comprehensive picture of HE provision by private and alternative suppliers” as it invites them to play a bigger role in the new higher education...
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Reading signs £230 million deal to hand student halls to private company
The University of Reading has signed a £230 million deal which will see its entire campus accommodation run by a private company.
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Universities feel the squeeze as teacher training places fall
The university sector has lost a tenth of its secondary-level initial teacher training places for 2012-13, government allocations reveal.
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Glory in Excelsior!
Superhero comics gave Stephen Mumford the reading bug at an early age and a passion for the form he retains to this day. Even in the blockbuster era, he says, panels can't be beat...
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One quango to rule them all?
Government plans for the Higher Education Funding Council for England are ringing alarm bells across the sector. Can it really become a consumer protection body and fund universities without...
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
A grand strategist of the Cold War era had moments of burnished majesty, learns Alex Danchev
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The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains
The three elements of a polar atlas are fascinating but don't quite make a whole, says Robert Mayhew
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Writing Romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807
While thanking earlier scholars of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth in the preface to her new book, Jacqueline Labbe remarks that "in researching it I have learned vaster amounts than have made...
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Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages
Let's start with the title. It's a shocker. Not only does it suggest, misleadingly, a humorous tome on medieval saints and their appendages, but its register seems quite inappropriate to what is in...
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The Quantum Universe: Everything That Can Happen Does Happen
Graham Farmelo applauds an ambitious scientific work, but warns that it's not for the fainthearted
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The Cost of Inequality: Three Decades of the Super-Rich and the Economy
Many people would agree that a society in which a chief executive officer earns not five or 10 but 100 times as much as the average full-time worker is not a fair society. A series of recent studies...