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Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa
The role of academics is criticism. As teachers, their role is to instil the critical spirit in students. The role of administration in the academy is not to hinder the development of intellectual...
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31 March 2011
Old faces, fresh scrutiny - Graduate gatekeepers needed to watch over the academy
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Reading head to stand down
The vice-chancellor of the University of Reading is to step down.
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Back to the 1980s: v-c warning over Willetts’ places plan
Any attempt by the government to siphon off a percentage of student places and reallocate them to universities offering the lowest fees would drive down quality and lead to larger class sizes, a vice...
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Inside Higher Ed: Colleges fling spring parties
By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed
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AHRC and the Big Society: ‘you use the language policymakers understand’
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has strongly denied that it has been pressurised into funding research on the Conservative Party’s “Big Society” agenda.
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Leeds Met to charge near-maximum fees
Two years ago, Leeds Metropolitan University was the only higher education institution in England offering a substantial discount on tuition fees, charging just £2,000 a year.
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Aboriginal Canadians’ university challenges are still steep
In the 1950s, it was possible to count the number of students from an aboriginal background studying at Canadian universities on the fingers of one hand.Numbers have grown substantially since then,...
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Republican Party demands access to Wisconsin academic’s emails
A branch of the US Republican Party has been accused of attacking academic freedom by using freedom of information laws to access emails sent by a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who...
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Higher education unions and students set to March for the Alternative
Members of higher education unions will take to London’s streets to join a day of protest against government cuts to public services, while students plan to inject some “radical spirit” via a feeder...
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Students’ show of solidarity with national strike action
Occupations are under way at two London universities as students rally in support of lecturers mounting a national strike over pensions, pay and jobs.
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Aston opts for maximum fees
Aston University has become the first institution from outside the 1994 and Russell groups to announce plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 in 2012.
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The Turbulent World of Franz Göll: An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century
Ulrike Zitzlsperger on the diaries of an 'average' man who played witness to the tumult of history
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When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life
A whimsical tale fails to convey the power of a great thinker's insights, writes Biancamaria Fontana