Tara Brabazon: Paying to get connected
Managers may promote the use of technology in teaching purely with a view to saving money, but students want face-to-face interaction with inspirational teachers they can admire
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Publisher rewrites the book on degrees
Publishing giant Pearson has announced details of its plans to offer degrees in a range of vocational subjects from 2012.
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Ballot call as online ‘referendum’ rejects USS plans
The University and College Union has called for a full ballot on changes to higher education’s largest pension scheme after 96 per cent of voters in its online “referendum” rejected the employers’...
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A new strategy is needed for a brutal new era
Peter Hallward describes why he joined the demonstration on 9 December, and gives his personal account of how events unfolded that day
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Complaints adjudication moves towards transparency
The student complaints body is pressing ahead with plans to publish more details about the cases it handles, despite universities’ concerns that their reputations could be damaged.
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V-c pledges to match fee-debt payments to support students
A vice-chancellor has told staff at his university that he intends to take on the same tuition fee “debt” as future students.
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Coalition survives Lib Dem backbench rebellion to carry fees vote in Commons
The tuition fee cap in England is set to rise to £9,000 after the coalition government survived a rebellion from Liberal Democrat backbenchers to win a House of Commons vote.
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Thinking about Leadership
Amanda Goodall finds this analysis perceptive, useful...and it's written by someone who has led
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Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language
Many of today's common phrases originated in the Authorised Version, Hannibal Hamlin discovers
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Surviving Hitler's War: Family Life in Germany, 1939-48
Much has been written about women in wartime and post-war Germany, generally to the effect that they were left to shoulder the burdens of maintaining family life in both the terrifying and chaotic...
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The Solitary Self: Darwin and the Selfish Gene
It is not, I suggest, just an accident that all those we think of as typical rational beings - namely human ones - have begun their lives as babies, living in a deeply affectionate and dependent...
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Herding Cats: Being Advice to Aspiring Academic and Research Leaders
Malcolm Gillies enjoys this aphoristic guide to university life but fears time may have moved on
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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
Until the 19th century, the average person consumed $3 per day (in today's prices). There were small blips for ancient Rome, the early medieval Arab world and late medieval Europe, but otherwise the...
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Mind Games: 31 Days to Rediscover Your Brain
This book advertises itself as a self-directed course to explore mind, brain and consciousness in a way that involves not just reading, but engaging in various activities that allow diligent students...
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Campus round-up
University of Northampton - Trash to cashProceeds from a university's new social enterprise are to be used to fund student scholarships. We Re PC, the company launched by the University of...