Tara Brabazon: Bringing them to books
One short sentence chills the expectations of teachers. A student, in reply to a tutorial question or query about an assignment, shrilly replies: “I don’t like reading.” This is an ice pick through...
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Defeat for UCU Left in vice-presidential ballot
The increasingly influential University and College Union Left group has lost out in elections that lead to the union’s presidency in 2013.
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Universities will not be penalised for missing diversity targets
Universities that miss their targets on recruiting students from poor backgrounds will not be hit by sanctions, according to detailed guidance from the access watchdog today.
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Sector’s reliance on overseas income grows
Income from tuition fees paid by overseas students rose by 17.8 per cent last year to represent almost £10 out of every £100 earned by the English higher education sector.
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Trust breakdown: Willetts’ sales drive is car-crash politics
The universities minister has ruined his relationship with the sector, Simon Szreter argues, and it will take more than speeches to fix it
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Cash injection to boost medical research
Applications have opened in what the government is billing as the largest ever funding programme for translational research in medicine.
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Sweden’s universities to charge non-EU students
Swedish universities are at a crossroads. Starting in September, all students from outside the European Union will pay tuition fees. While tuition will remain free for home and EU students, others...
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Institutions in financial holes suffer prolonged pain, and more will come, NAO says
Universities that get into financial difficulties are staying at higher risk for longer, and problems are likely to worsen under the revamped funding regime, a new report warns.
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LSE director resigns
Sir Howard Davies has resigned as director of the London School of Economics, and the school’s governing council has launched an independent inquiry into its relationship with Libya and with Saif...
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Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
Tara Brabazon believes communication platforms enhance interactions when used appropriately
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The Pursuit of Italy: A History of a Land, Its Regions and Their Peoples
Richard Bosworth hungers for something new in a tale of a disjointed country's struggle for unity
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Clicko: The Wild Dancing Bushman
The interface between ethnographic studies and popular entertainment has attracted growing interest in recent years. As both popular historians and academics begin to mine this rich and controversial...
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Cultivating Conscience: How Good Laws Make Good People
Cultivating Conscience is a blistering attack on the "law and economics" school, which has had an enormous impact in the US legal academy. For Lynn Stout, professor of corporate and securities law at...
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Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy
Fred Inglis wishes for a more searching critique of what passes for contentment in the modern era
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Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem
Gilbert and Sullivan's Major-General may have known many, but the only cheerful fact about the square on the hypotenuse that is familiar to most of us is that it is equal to the sum of the squares on...