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Commons select committeesLabour MPs to take chairsTwo Labour MPs will be in charge of scrutinising UK policy on universities, research and higher education after being elected to head the House of...
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Daytime TV: A cut above
Gary Day is dazzled by Ozwald Boateng's style, but less so by England's performance on the pitch
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Shock transfer news!
Our Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, has responded in kind to the news that Middlesex University's Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy is set to be transferred to...
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Research intelligence - Science's man in the lobby
As an ex-parliamentary researcher, CaSE's new head knows his way around the corridors of power. Paul Jump writes
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Stop with the gloom and doom
Moaning about cuts won't win the sector friends or spare it pain. Its leaders must step up and make a positive case for its value
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From where I sit: Europe, the laboratory of ideas
Last month, my institution, IE University, held a one-day conference to debate some of the issues that will dominate the agenda of university managers and policymakers over the next decade. It was...
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John Newson, 1925-2010
A pioneering developmental psychologist who shed light on the inner world of young children, and how they interact with their mothers, has died.John Newson was born in London on 10 December 1925 and...
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Dreaming spires dominant: Oxford tops 'Table of tables' for third year
Cambridge edged out by ancient rival as Lancaster jumps into 10th place. Sarah Cunnane reports
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To the stars and back
The space shuttles' impact went beyond science. Kevin Fong will miss them
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Dual threat to meeting the Atlantic challenge
The fact that the UK's biggest international education competitor, the US, is directing more resources to boosting its offering to foreign students should act as a wake-up call to our politicians:...
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Still in never-never land 1
Asking students to accept increased debt as a future increment on income tax reflects the simplistic accounting that has led to the country's financial plight ("Willetts floats idea of separating...
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Still in never-never land 2
A tip for David Willetts. Any university with a wine cellar should have its public funding cut unless the stock is part of an investment experiment by its business school and not for imbibing. This...
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Outsources of discontent
The University Alliance is rehashing tired old arguments about saving money by outsourcing ("Lift tax-barrier to shared services, Alliance pleads", 10 June).The claim that contracting out services...
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Religious literacy
In view of the concern that Ofsted recently expressed about the standard of some schools' teaching of Christianity, we would like to draw attention to a further dimension to the problem: namely, such...