Fair access is beyond price
Big bursaries are not enticing the poor into elite institutions; targeted outreach may be an answer, says Sir Martin Harris
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This is no time to cut the strings of Britain's economic parachute
University research generates ideas and keeps the country competitive - so we must protect its funding, argues Paul Wellings
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Daytime TV: A class apart
The politics of the North-South divide gave material for many gritty novels of the 1960s, says Gary Day
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Nobel Prize Predictions, 2002-10
Nobel Prize Predictions, 2002-10Data provided by Thomson Reuters Research Services Group, 2002-10YearMedicineChemistryPhysicsEconomics2010D. L. Coleman, J. M. Friedman (leptin) %3Cbr /%3EE. A....
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Brand-new exciting rankings!
Yes, all of us at The Poppletonian are delighted to announce the publication of the brand-new, completely revised, dramatically improved, extraordinarily more sensitive higher education rankings for...
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Don't let views cloud scientific integrity
Global ethics guidelines set out researchers’ duties to be clear and above board, writes Paul Jump
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Leader: The space for a spirit to know
Universities should not be a battlefront but a forum where religion and secularism can be debated without rancour
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Charm offensive
Tim Birkhead on universities' courtship of their next cohort of students
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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From where I sit - Logos do not deliver popularity
I bumped into a colleague the other day who expressed her relief at the outcome of the Australian election. The result had hung in the balance for two weeks and could have gone either way before...
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Franz Schurmann, 1926-2010
An academic expert on China and global politics who was also a pioneering journalist has died.Franz Schurmann, the son of a German mother and a Slovenian father, was born in New York on 21 June 1926...
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Research Intelligence - Practice makes profit
UK humanities scholars have reaped rewards in Europe thanks to their grant-writing experience, reports Paul Jump
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The dogma delusion
The notion of a 'war' between science and religion is a media-friendly but profoundly inaccurate model for scholars' many-hued and nuanced views of God, faith and doubt. Matthew Reisz reports
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The six wives and nine lives of Henry VIII
Bard movies, ruff sex, soap-opera 'faction' and grumpy old historians: Clive Bloom on our enduring fascination with the Tudors
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Trouble with numbers
Mass higher education has brought social mobility to millions worldwide, but as access expands and academia is stretched to breaking point, standards are in steady decline, writes Philip Altbach