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‘Perverse’ VAT policy will harm libraries and research, Chancellor told
Plans to increase VAT on e-books to 20 per cent will not only affect university libraries but will also inhibit research and learning and the digital economy, the organisation representing the UK and...
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CSI: heart of darkness
The success of forensic science must not blind the discipline to the truths to be gleaned from studying the chaos of criminality, argues Stephen Wade
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University Alliance tells coalition: if you want efficiency, cut the red tape
Reform of university employment contracts, pensions and taxation is needed if the higher education sector is to find efficiency savings in the age of austerity, a mission group report has warned.The...
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Surrey tops graduate employment table, London South Bank languishes at bottom
Graduate employment rates vary widely between universities, according to figures published today.The proportion of graduates who say they are working or studying six months after graduation ranges...
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Cable sets out radical plans for academy’s future
Vince Cable has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate...
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How to pass the sight test
Keep it visual, asserts Peter Hill. It is imperative that candidates for studio-based arts PhDs present their research using the physicality of their chosen medium
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Voices of experience
In a chilly economic climate, business schools' ability to deliver research with real-world relevance is essential. Tracey Hudson asks whether they can find the right academics to deliver those goals
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Style points
Few scholarly works can communicate with non-specialists, if they even attempt to. But academics in all fields may need to make their writing more accessible to satisfy demands for impact and...
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How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace
Andrew Gamble finds hope in a persuasive analysis of how nations once in conflict can become allies
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Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination
The contemplation of the horrid or sordid or disgusting, by an artist, is the necessary and negative aspect of the impulse toward the pursuit of beauty." Thus T.S. Eliot insists on the symbiosis...
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Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town
Saltaire's founder, the reticent Sir Titus Salt (1803-76), in one of his rare utterances, is supposed to have observed that "drink and lust" were at the bottom of it all. His few sagacities were...
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES- One Company, Diverse WorkplacesBy Marta Kahancova, visiting assistant professor in the department of political science, Central European...
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Book of the week: Bottled and Sold
No filter: Mathew White on our readiness to swallow the hype that costs us the Earth
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Sarah Kane in Context
Christopher Innes on the first collection of essays to focus on a single British playwright of the 1990s