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These amulets form part of a collection held at the University of Michigan's Taubman Health Sciences Library.

These amulets form part of a collection held at the University of Michigan's Taubman Health Sciences Library.
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By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed

The backlash against plans for a new £18,000-a-year college for the humanities intensified when protesters set off a flare during a talk by the institution’s founding master.

Academics at the University of Oxford have voted through a motion of “no confidence” in David Willetts, the universities and science minister.
Writing course materials for Goldsmiths was a young Gabriel Egan’s first scholarly work. Two decades later, they’re part of a ‘superstar’ institution’s offerings
An influential cross-party committee of MPs has warned that the government could face a funding gap of “several hundred million pounds” as a result of its policy on tuition fees and raised the...
Thinking of befriending your students on a social-media site? You may want to think again. While it may be a good way to meet students “on their terms”, a lawyer specialising in the use of social...

A new private university college is to be launched, specialising in the arts and humanities and charging tuition fees of £18,000 a year.
Universities have been urged to use financial worries as an opportunity to reassess their internationalisation strategies in the spirit of “never letting a good crisis go to waste”.
In a climate of higher fees and rising unemployment, student litigation is likely to increase. Adam Brett offers his evaluation of what universities must do to stay out of court
Durham University has been urged by a senior official at Cancer Research UK to return funding it received from British American Tobacco.

Hundreds of the University of Sheffield’s lowest-paid workers are on strike today in a dispute over pension cuts, while union officials at the University of Salford claim that a multimillion-pound “...

Rapid global temperature shifts are nothing new, as Steve Yearley learns from a cold country's core