Intellectual fruit of neoliberal seedbed
In bemoaning the decline in higher education research since the publication of the Robbins report, Gareth Williams diplomatically sidesteps an assumption that Lord Robbins made that neither he nor...
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News in brief - 24 October 2013
Hefce appointmentsIn the student cornerThe ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for England has appointed a board member with specific responsibility for the student interest. Graeme Osborn is a former...
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UK pair build ‘genuine collaboration’ with Latin America
Delegation to Brazil underscores progress in UK universities’ collaborative efforts
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The War that Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War, by Margaret MacMillan
Roger Morgan on the reasons why so much blood was shed
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Who picks up the tab for growth?
Willetts, like Robbins, envisages more graduates, but he is similarly reluctant to explain how expansion will be funded
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Uclan data point to falling student recruitment
Internal papers show 3 per cent decline in firm acceptances for University of Central Lancashire
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Research collaboration patterns in Europe
More than half (57 per cent) of all European research papers are written by authors with collaborators outside their institution, a study has found
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Research cluster explores all things gothic
Manchester Met launches interdisciplinary Centre for Gothic Studies
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JoVE journal’s videos take strain out of new science
Model is saving research from ‘scourge of irreproducibility’, says founder Moshe Pritsker
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Old boys and backhanders
Zhang Shuguang, a former railway ministry official, recently went on trial for corruption. He pleaded guilty, and admitted to having spent nearly half of the $7.8 million (£4.9 million) in bribes...
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Small US colleges scramble for survival
Institutions struggle as the pool of potential students shrinks
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Daniel Binney, Paul Greatrix, Sara Read, Nigel Rodenhurst and Richard J. Williams...
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ÌÇÐÄVlog in America, by Derek Bok
An evaluation of US tertiary education prompts Mary Stuart to reflect on how the UK is changing
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The New York Nobody Knows: Walking 6,000 Miles in the City, by William B. Helmreich
Flora Samuel on a sociologist’s observations of everyday life in the Big Apple