Call for greater flexibility on retirement
Universities must stop using retirement age as a crude performance management tool as they face up to changing life cycles and the end of the default retirement age of 65.The argument was made by...
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Post-1992 campuses 'to be hit hardest by fees rise'
Number of students aspiring to attend newer universities 'could halve'. David Matthews writes
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Cheap-places policy may obstruct Cable's bridge-building plans
Vice-chancellors rehearse their objections to 'risky' White Paper proposals, writes Simon Baker
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Visa reform questioned again as passage from India shows signs of blockage
Fresh worries have been raised that visa reforms could be damaging the ability of UK universities to recruit students from overseas after more evidence emerged of a large drop in demand from India.
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Neutral value for Treasury adviser
Department's first scientific chief sets out his stall firmly in the middle of the road. Paul Jump reports
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The Conflagration of Community: Fiction Before and After Auschwitz
Robert Eaglestone is gripped by an exploration of the nexus between literature, society and the Holocaust
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The Burgher and the Whore: Prostitution in Early Modern Amsterdam
Petra de Vries finds an analysis of the Dutch sex trade vividly conjures the scene from the brothel
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Work's Intimacy
In a lively and compelling read, Melissa Gregg examines the impact of technologies on the work and lifestyles of employees in the knowledge economy. This book covers a lot of ground in a relatively...
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Networked: A Contemporary History of News in Transition
In the vortex of angst generated by scandal at News International and the complicity of Britain's political class, it is cheering to read a book that makes one feel a little more optimistic about the...
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Virginia Woolf
A focus on the joyous and teasing spirit in the writer's lyric novels appeals to Deborah Longworth
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Art without an Author: Vasari's Lives and Michelangelo's Death
Earlier this year, The Guardian devoted one of its "In praise of..." editorials to Giorgio Vasari, on the 500th anniversary of his birth. It celebrated one of the most remarkable and influential...
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
In the 1980s, the Brundtland Commission's report on sustainable development radically stated that the environment was important for the poor. Damage to the environment was caused by the poor, but...
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Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement
Degas may be long dead, but his figures move through time to remind us of the beauty of his work and its visceral power, writes Michael Howard
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Diary
LondonHamra Abbas: CitiesKuwaiti-born artist Hamra Abbas was educated in Lahore and Berlin, and now divides her time between Boston and Islamabad. The works on display at the Green Cardamom gallery...
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The Pick - Life and Fate
Credit: BBC/Estate of Vasily GrossmanFirst-hand experience: Vasily Grossman's manuscript was "arrested"Life and FateBBC Radio 4The Archers is sacrosanct. But from Sunday 18 September until a week...