Are you having a laugh?
@Lord_Browne gained a following by poking fun at UK higher education’s upheavals. Now silenced by Twitter, he tells Sarah Cunnane about real universities, the trouble with students and how many...
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Students and academics to stage London march over funding cuts and fee rises
Thousands of students and lecturers will march through central London on 10 November in protest at government cuts to universities and colleges and a hike in tuition fees.
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Nottingham in talks to set up second campus in China
The University of Nottingham is in talks about creating a new campus in China – its second in the country and its third overseas campus.
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Inside Higher Ed: Tenured jobs saved
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Operation overload: community colleges told to do even more
Obama rallies Cinderella sector to unemployment battle. Jon Marcus reports from the White House
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An invaluable catalyst
The Royal Society Prize for Science Books stimulates public interest and is too important to be allowed to disappear, says Maggie Philbin
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Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
The Islamic renaissance laid the foundations for much modern thinking, writes Emilie Savage-Smith
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The 50 Most Extreme Places in Our Solar System
Jim Wild takes a whistle-stop tour of the most mind-blowing destinations in our celestial backyard
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Dishonest to God: On Keeping Religion out of Politics
All readers of this magazine must be aware of the global warming, in recent years, of the dispute between those minded to bring their religious convictions firmly into politics and those determined...
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The Canon: Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism
Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural MaterialismEdited by Jonathan Dollimore and Alan SinfieldPolitical Shakespeare appeared in 1985, alongside a similarly focused collection of essays,...
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Understanding Euroscepticism
Richard Rose admires the clarity with which Europe's growing doubts about integration are outlined
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The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives
As the internet has become not only an important news source, but a force that is rapidly merging traditional news platforms, television, print media and subjective postings, it is somewhat...
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The Autism Matrix
This is a key contribution to a growing body of literature examining the history and cultural meaning of autism. Using a wide variety of data sources, the authors outline a sociology of autism that...
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Top nations in neuroscience and behaviour
Top nations in neuroscience and behaviourData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpact1 England24,009 600,942 25.032...
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Outcry over Scottish call for graduate contributions
Unions want the employer to bear the financial burden, not the student. Hannah Fearn reports