US cuts funding to George J. Mitchell Scholarship
President of US-Ireland Alliance says step is sign of America’s ‘indifference to Europe’
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Canada overhauls icy image to woo world’s students
A new marketing drive aims to boost country’s share of students from BRICS countries
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Let there be light inside the confessional
Catholic author and journalist John Cornwell discusses The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession and the ‘imaginative exercise’ of religion
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Swansea seeks pro v-c in drive for research promotion
‘Inspirational leader’ needed as university adds £450m campus to city-centre base. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Why do ministers ignore a flood of expertise?
Phil Ashworth on how to get scientific experts inside the political machine
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Greater London: the capital as city state
Malcolm Gillies on why the metropolis could (and perhaps should) go it alone
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Review: Only Lovers Left Alive
The vampire as cultured aesthete is the beatless heart of Jim Jarmusch’s peculiarly reassuring film, says Lucy Bolton
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David Eastwood, Graham Farmelo, Matthew Feldman, Helen Taylor and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Suzanne Scotchmer, 1950-2014
A theoretical economist whose pioneering analyses of “clubs”, patents, incentives and innovation provided important insights to lawyers and policymakers has died
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Leader - Support for teams of rivals
Could working in a ‘team of rivals’ encourage academic creativity - and turn out better equipped graduates, too?
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Not marking?
Experts foresee tough reaction from universities to UCU’s ‘ultimate sanction’. Jack Grove reports
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Bring in the banks: vice-chancellor breaks cover on student finance
Rama Thirunamachandran moots idea of a loan system ‘underpinned by the private sector’
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Who's smarter...
Paper says social scientists are less intelligent than physicists and their ilk. Paul Jump writes
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Hepi director owns up to policy ‘mistake’
Hepi director’s mea culpa comes as he considers ‘problems in the status quo’. John Morgan writes
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Gove guarded on cost of A-level revision
But estimate puts cost of Russell Group-led redesign at £10 million a year. Jack Grove reports