Do more to help working-class students enter professions
Milburn report on social mobility says universities must expand efforts to widen participation. Hannah Fearn reports
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Private colleges are warned of inspection visits
MPs concerned about immigration examinations and accrediting agency. Melanie Newman reports
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Gloria Monday: ‘Leave’ me out of it
Gloria Monday on business-speak, unpronounceable graduands and the human face of administration
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Government announces 10,000 more places
The Government has announced an extra 10,000 university places in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.Lord Mandelson, the First Secretary, confirmed that the Government would pay the...
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Graduate unemployment rises
The number of jobless degree-holders jumps, but figures reveal some institutional pockets of employability excellence. Hannah Fearn reports
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Hong Kong students abandon UK study plans
Tough visa rules and high risk of rejection are putting off applicants, observers claim. Melanie Newman reports
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Secret ‘at-risk’ list set to grow, MP claims
Up to 30 institutions face ‘significant deficits’ next year, Tory states in Commons debate. Melanie Newman reports
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Let us create a British Ivy League, says former government adviser
Sir Cyril Taylor calls for more private provision and an end to the cap on student numbers and fees. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Prime Minister promises more university places
The Prime Minister has promised “further increases” in university places this year.During a grilling by MPs on the House of Commons Liaison Committee this morning, Gordon Brown said that the...
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The war of the canon
Some study literature to discover themselves. But the task can be painful, George Watson argues, and the outcome nebulous
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Red, white and blue Moon
The Apollo programme was an American dream made flesh, but British scientists and engineers played a vital role in its realisation, explains Colin Pillinger
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Book of the week: Beyond The Box
Behaviourism's founder has suffered bad press, writes Janine Spencer
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Suicide in Nazi Germany
Cornelie Usborne delves into a complex and painful phenomenon of the Second World War
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Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
Wolfgang Pauli was admired as a blazingly confident theoretical physicist but also feared as a pitiless critic of every woolly or illogical idea. In 1932, when he was at his peak, few of his...
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The Canon: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. By Emile Durkheim
It should be against the law for anyone to write about religion without passing an exam on Emile Durkheim's 1912 text The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. This book stands unchallenged as the most...