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United StatesFeds mull over for-profit cut-offThe US government has delayed its decision on whether to allow federal money to go to for-profit colleges whose graduates do not earn enough to repay...
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#LoveHE: A priceless opportunity
Mathematician and TV presenter Rachel Riley on the many ways higher education can spur self-improvement
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#loveHE
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Reckless exploitation of the overseas market will only end in tears
Andy Masheter argues that Britain's academy must not sacrifice its hard-won global reputation on the altar of expediency
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The good old times
Gary Day is diverted by a look at working-class pleasures and the life of the Queen of the Music Hall
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The Week in Higher Education
The events of 2014 will determine the course of the 21st century, according to a University of Cambridge academic. Nicholas Boyle argues that the previous five centuries have hinged on events, such...
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Sum of universities' fears: cuts of up to a quarter and VAT rise
Sector leaders plan fightback as Osborne unveils emergency Budget. Simon Baker reports
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Maastricht treatise: bleak future for Europe's academy without GDP boost
European societies have been urged to commit 2 per cent of their gross domestic products to higher education as part of the "urgent action" needed to prevent them losing out to the US and Asia.A...
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The 5 per cent savings solution
FEC report calls for efficiencies and offers support for research concentration. John Morgan reports
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Role-playing: two feared dead
"A serious setback for empathy." That was how our Head of Personal Development, Jennifer Doubleday, described the tragic outcome of last Thursday's exercise in campus role-playing.Ms Doubleday told...
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Content before commerce
Merchandising should not dictate children's television, says Sally Feldman
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Research intelligence - What have you been missing?
Researchers now have a tool offering translations of open-access material in nine major languages. Paul Jump reports
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewersClaire Chambers is senior lecturer in postcolonial literature, Leeds Metropolitan University. She is reading Ghada Karmi's In Search of Fatima...
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Off Piste - Elixirs of life
If you are a connoisseur of fortified wines, you are likely to be over 50. Enthusiast Aldwyn Cooper has enjoyed expanding his knowledge of the finest wines and can't understand why the young haven't...
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Leader: Discontent is currency for all ages
Reform of the sector's pension scheme may be essential, but no single option will please everyone - not least students