3 October 2013
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Ain鈥檛 No Trust: How Bosses, Boyfriends and Bureaucrats Fail Low-Income Mothers and Why it Matters, by Judith A. Levine
Angelia R. Wilson on welfare, women and unresolved political tension
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The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London, by Hannah Greig
Clare Brant on the truly dedicated followers of 18th-century fashion
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US for-profits must up their game to regain lost ground
High tuition, bad press and recovering economy cited in falling student numbers
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Europe faces longer wait for single market in research
Academics still hidebound by national rules, Commission finds
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Australia鈥檚 Coalition to review demand-driven system
New government also aims to cut red tape
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News in brief - 3 October 2013
United StatesIll-fated ratingA credit ratings agency has downgraded a US university, citing loss of revenue from its hospital arm and cuts in federal funding among the reasons. Moody鈥檚 Investors...
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Academy and business aim to reforge language supply chain
Born Global research looks to bridge gap between supply and demand
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Will and representation
It was lovely to see an article on Just聽William (鈥淓mbrace a scruffy boy鈥, Culture, 19聽September), but it behoves editors always to be wary of pieces that arrive with the tag, 鈥渘o one has written...
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Dead ideas walking
鈥淗ow a clergyman鈥檚 insights can answer panellists鈥 prayers鈥 (Opinion, 19 September) by economists Andrew Oswald and Daniel Sgroi nicely illustrates what is wrong with economics today: a willingness...
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Vulcanised material
Martin Cohen鈥檚 review of If A then B: How聽the World Discovered Logic (Books, 19聽September) suggests that its authors, Michael Shenefelt and Heidi White, want to put logic at 鈥渢he heart of life鈥....
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Ways and memes
Like R.鈥塃. Rawles (Letters, 26 September), I聽was somewhat startled by Gerald J. Pillay鈥檚 reference to聽memes as 鈥渨ildly imaginative鈥 (in聽his review of Christianity and the University Experience:...
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Fractional exponent
Your recent news story indicated that 0.2 part-time contracts have risen by nearly two-thirds across the sector during the past two years (鈥溾楪ame鈥 of one-fifth? Part-time contracts rise in run-up to...
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Willetts looks to dismantle the ELQ bar
Minister points to 鈥榠ncremental鈥 removal and sounds warning over Labour fees policy
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Pre-拢9K fees top income streams
The growing importance of tuition fee聽income for UK universities has been highlighted by 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency data