Mandelson says universities ‘are not factories for producing workers’
First Secretary aims to reassure sector in first major speech on higher education. Phil Baty reports
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Hefce unveils teaching cuts
Nine institutions will lose more than £1 million each in 2009-10. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Bursary rule change leaves poorest out of pocket
Move prompts renewed criticism of the Government’s maintenance-grant freeze. Rebecca Attwood reports
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What sets you apart?
The answer to that is what a brand provides. Robert Mighall argues that far from being deceptive, alien and wasteful, branding is essential for telling the world what a university stands for and...
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Primary colours
Martin Cohen examines Barack Obama's political philosophy and finds parallels with Machiavelli's Prince. Behind the rhetoric, the President is a pragmatist who will do whatever it takes
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The missing link
Why are American universities so much better at patenting their work than their European counterparts? Craig Evan Klafter spots a crucial difference in the qualifications of patent lawyers
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THE Book of the Week - The Lightness of Being: Big Questions, Real Answers
Graham Farmelo admires a sassy new overview of theories of fundamental particles
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Under the Radar: Cancer and the Cold War
The Cold War intimacy of America's medical and military establishments bothers Elizabeth Toon
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Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown
Having been a lifelong advocate of cycling proficiency lessons for fish, I was delighted to discover this sharp new look at an old feminist role model. Jennifer Scanlon is one of the few to have...
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The Canon: Ordinary Vices
In her landmark 1984 work, Ordinary Vices, political theorist Judith Shklar argues that in contrast to other liberal conceptions the "liberalism of fear" refers only to one summum malum, cruelty (and...
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Author profile: Farzana Shaikh discusses her latest book - Making Sense of Pakistan
Farzana Shaikh's identity leads to some distrust of her work on Pakistan. Unfazed, she tells Melanie Newman she expects more criticism for her exploration of the country's identity crisis
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The Resurrection of the Body: Pier Paolo Pasolini from Saint Paul to Sade
A focus on Pasolini's conflicted gay identity offers new insights, says John David Rhodes
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Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics from Hogarth to Blair
This is a lively and stimulating history of electoral campaigning, spanning three centuries from the era before Parliamentary reform of the franchise to the present. Despite the enormous changes in...
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Before My Helpless Sight: Suffering, Dying and Military Medicine on the Western Front, 1914-1918
The First World War gave war a bad name and, as the rather chilling title of this book forewarns, Leo van Bergen is keen to tell us why in grisly detail. No doubt a stroll around the battlefields of...
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to ZEdited by Richard Milner, associate in anthropology, American Museum of Natural History. University of California Press, £23.95. ISBN...