Laurie Taylor 鈥 18 February 2016
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Grant winners 鈥 18 February 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Business schools: distracted drivers of some bad practices
Like Volkswagen, MBA programmes have fostered harms as well as benefits. They need to rehumanise management, says Douglas聽Board
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India鈥檚 passage might not be simple, but it can climb to elite tier
The country鈥檚 ambitious goals for its universities can鈥檛 be hit quickly or cheaply, says Philip聽Altbach, but they can be achieved
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Taking offence: a new pandemic?
From Rhodes鈥 statue to radical speakers, the young and old understand, and cope with, offence differently, argues Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto
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More needed than tinkering
John Jerrim鈥檚 argument that free university tuition is in effect a subsidy for the rich is quite correct, although it was only one among a raft of such subsidies (鈥淔ree university tuition 鈥榗ould lead...
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No silver bullet
The question of whether the fall in UK undergraduate applicants spells trouble for universities also needs to be asked at postgraduate level (鈥淓nd of boom time for universities?鈥, 5 February). The...
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How to help Jordan
There has been much debate about how to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and beyond. That debate has also taken place at the University of Bath over the past few months, with calls for the...
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Tertiary study鈥檚 impact on views of the political process
This graphic shows to what extent tertiary education increases people鈥檚 sense that they have a say in politics