21 March 2013
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Culture: The Subject of Murder
Lisa Downing explains to Matthew Reisz how society’s unspoken prejudices are given voice in the discourse surrounding killers
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Protesters versus the strong arm of the law
Justice has been poorly served by the bloody-minded determination of the state to prosecute anti-fees demonstrators, argues Martin McQuillan
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Sussex students plan national demonstration
Campaigners at the University of Sussex plan to host a national demonstration against privatisation in higher education.
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University Campus Suffolk sets sail for independence
University Campus Suffolk is to begin the process of gaining its own degree-awarding powers, its board has confirmed.
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Government changes course on for-profit VAT
George Osborne’s budget has revealed that the government appears to be scrapping plans to grant VAT exemption to for-profit higher education providers, a move that was aimed at exposing universities...
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Les Ebdon 'will not enhance’ access targets
Universities will not be asked to admit more students from deprived backgrounds in their new access agreements, the director of fair access has indicated.
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Craig Mahoney to be next UWS v-c
The chief executive of the Higher Education Academy is to be the new head of the University of the West of Scotland.
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Harlem Shake ‘costs Oxford librarian her job’
A librarian at a University of Oxford college has reportedly lost her job after a group of 30 students filmed an internet dance video in the library.
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AstraZeneca cuts UK headcount and moves to Cambridge
In a further demonstration of the lure of the so-called golden triangle, pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has announced plans to relocate its UK-based research and development activities from Cheshire...
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Koen Lamberts to be new York v-c
The University of York has unveiled Belgian cognitive psychologist Koen Lamberts as its new vice-chancellor.
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Internet pioneers win inaugural engineering prize
Five engineers who laid the foundations for the modern internet have won the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
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Inside Higher Ed: Politics and Cautions in California
By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed
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Graduate premium in starting salaries ‘up by a quarter’
The graduate premium in starting salaries increased by a quarter between 2005 and 2010, according to new research.
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Graduates in STEM ‘need to rise by half’
The UK needs to boost its output of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates by almost 50 per cent to satisfy market demand, a thinktank has calculated.