Letter: Too busy obeying to challenge (4)
My rationale for working at a university and studying for a PhD was not to "escape the real world" but to allow me to understand it better and (hopefully) share that understanding with others. Frank...
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Leader: Cold winds affect efforts to reform student support
Recession can be good for education, making studying and teaching seem relatively attractive as the cold wind blows. The last recession drove substantial expansion in further and higher education,...
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Leader: NHS university seems a hasty prescription
The government's idea for a University of the National Health Service is broadly a good one. It was promised in Labour's election campaign and looks set to happen. But details so far imply that, as...
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Flawed God, wash away all your sins
Jack Miles tells Anthony Freeman how his take on the Bible casts God as a sinner who overcame a late-life crisis only by repenting in the form of Jesus. The Bible should carry a warning: it can...
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Old lessons for modern warriors
How do you organise 603 groups - each with its own agenda, political orientation and organising style - into a coherent force that can blockade the centre of a major city, halt an international...
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Free thinkers working to create a free society
Anarchistic ideas date back to the ancient world: dissident writers from ancient Greece, Rome, China and India condemned authority and demanded a form of anarchy - a society without a ruler. Their...
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Marx moves over to make room for new lot of rebels
The fall of the house of Marx and the end of the cold war have led to a decline in labour history that has affected social history in general because, as Patrick Joyce writes: "The basic repertoire...
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Latest international news
British novelist wins literature Nobel Trinidad-born British writer V S Naipaul is the winner of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The citation says that it was awarded "for having united...
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From today's UK papers
Daily Telegraph A record number of students started at university this month, undeterred by the prospect of leaving with large debts, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service....
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Latest UK news
Natfhe angered by consultation snub Lecturers' leaders have attacked vice-chancellors for excluding staff from plans for a higher education ombudsman. Lecturers’ union Natfhe has written to...
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Latest UK news
Record numbers studying at UK institutions More students than ever are studying at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom, according to data released today by the...
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Latest international news
Three share Nobel award for chemistry Two Americans and a Japanese scientist have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular research used in making medicines. William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian Many of those involved in modern social policy will tonight pay tribute to Richard Titmuss, Britain's first professor of social administration. The Times&...
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Latest UK news
Tories back university expansion Shadow higher education spokesman Alistair Burt told delegates at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool that there was no going back on university expansion...