Grant letter reveals extent of cuts
Teaching funding for universities is to fall by 6 per cent in cash terms from £4.9 billion to £4.6 billion next year, and the government is planning a cut of 23 per cent the following year when...
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Opposing sides of Venezuela’s academy clash over policy and budgets
Venezuelan higher education is in a state of upheaval, with protests highlighting uncertainty over the future of its “autonomous” (traditional public) universities.
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Southwest union rises to Welsh minister’s challenges
Two universities have agreed in principle to merge and create a single institution for southwest Wales.
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SNP: state should shoulder funding burden, but need not go it alone
Scotland’s government believes that the state should retain “primary responsibility” for funding higher education, but could still introduce a graduate tax.
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The Lab: Creativity and Culture
Graham Farmelo is intrigued by an account of the explosion in ideas when art meets science
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Ballets Russes Style: Diaghilev's Dancers and Paris Fashion
The interplay between dance and fashion offers Anne Hogan fresh insights into the avant-garde
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The Fable of the World: A Philosophical Enquiry into Freedom in our Times
Opinions differ on whether the historical lineage of the idea of European unification is essentially pacifist (as in the writings of the Quaker William Penn), fascist (Hitler's European New Order...
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Galileo: Watcher of the Skies
Although it appears in the 400th year after the publication of Galileo's first telescopic treatise, David Wootton's intriguing portrait of that icon of early modern science acts as a corrective to...
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Higher Education and the Market
Miriam E. David assesses a sober appraisal of how global pressures are affecting higher education
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Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred
In his alternately engaging and exasperating new book, philosopher and historian of religion Jeffrey Kripal attempts to recover a history of "thinking off the page" through the work of four...
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Political Communication and Social Theory
In some ways it's surprising that David Attenborough has not yet turned his camera lens on the strange relationship between politicians and journalists that can be observed in the wild, at elections...
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Campus round-up
Institute of Education - Primary class divideDifferent rates of progress among children in their first two years at school are still driven largely by their parents' social class, a UK-wide study has...
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Odds and quads
This image, Boat building at Anstruther, was taken in 1973 by George Allan Little (1919-98), a Dundee banker who in his forties decided to embark on a career as a photographer.
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Disquiet grows over motives behind pension overhaul
Employers' forum raised possibility of slashing contributions to 10 per cent. John Morgan reports
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Wellington head calls for radical reform of '19th-century' education
Lecture advises vocational and technical streams for schools and universities. John Gill reports