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Yvette Cooper backs increased science spend with 3 per cent GDP target
Labour leadership candidate calls for 'revolution in science' and increased research and development spend
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Private college’s retention rates ‘unsatisfactory’, says QAA
ABI College investigation finds only two of 45-strong cohort have achieved intended qualifications
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UK universities at risk from ‘ill-informed’ immigration debate, warns Cambridge v-c
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz draws on his own background as the child of Polish immigrants to counter ‘negative’ rhetoric on immigration
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Sir Ken Macdonald: 'obnoxious' anti-radicalisation measures attack campus free speech
Senior lawyer criticises Counter Terrorism and Security Act
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Break down barriers between universities and industry, says report
Complexity of government initiatives to help commercialise university research under scrutiny
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University graduate employment performance revealed
London Metropolitan University records biggest improvement in Hesa data
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THE podcast: 2 - 8 July 2015 issue review
This week's issue discussed by the Times Higher Education team
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The News From Waterloo: The Race to Tell Britain of Wellington’s Victory, by Brian Cathcart
Frolics abound in a tale of how the 1815 triumph hit the front pages, writes Sharon Wheeler
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Can free thinking continue amid authoritarian culture?
With Hungary accused of ‘undermining democratic values’, Malcolm Gillies considers to what extent universities with a liberal mission can flourish in ‘illiberal’ societies
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Achebe and Friends at Umuahia: The Making of a Literary Elite, by Terri Ochiagha
Willy Maley on an ‘Eton of the East’ in Nigeria that inadvertently inspired a generation of writers
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The Story of Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, by Susan Wise Bauer
Alison Stokes on the literature that has tried to make complex explanations of the natural world accessible to laymen
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How the French Think: An Affectionate Portrait of an Intellectual People, by Sudhir Hazareesingh
Martin Cohen is unimpressed by an attempt to generalise about the philosophical inclinations of an entire nation
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Swift and Others, by Claude Rawson
A collection of erudite essays examines the impact of the great tiger of English letters on other writers, learns Richard J. Larschan
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The End of Cinema? A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age, by André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion
The advent of sound, of TV, of digital – the doomsayers have always pronounced on the demise of the flicks, Philip Kemp discovers