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The view from Down Under on what lies ahead for universities looks familiar, finds Roger Brown

The view from Down Under on what lies ahead for universities looks familiar, finds Roger Brown

Roger Morgan on how the liberal doyen Berlin blackballed Deutscher, the 鈥榠ntolerable鈥 Red

The marketeers鈥 blandishments are reducing to ashes the pursuit of knowledge and the very idea of the university, argues Fred Inglis, who looks on their works and despairs
Saudi Arabian scholarship programmeAmerica, here they comeHuge investment by the government of Saudi Arabia in overseas scholarships brought a flood of young Saudis to the US, an analysis suggests....

Edinburgh Napier outpost uncertain after Hong Kong land use dispute. David Matthews reports

Minerva intends to reinvent the university as a global experience of elite education with critical thinking at the core. Chris Parr hears the plans

A library-focused effort aims to聽take monographs off the analogue shelf

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: David CassidyInstitution: University College LondonValue: 拢147,622Gravitational free-fall experiments with positroniumAward winner: Ingrid...

An acclaimed academic biographer who went on to write a series of guides to sexual technique has diedDido Davies was born on 5 October 1953 to a playwright and an eccentric actress and was brought up...

University of DundeeMark RobsonThe newly appointed professor of English and theatre studies at the University of Dundee has pointed to the post鈥檚 鈥渆normous potential鈥. 鈥淭he role that I鈥檒l have at...

鈥淲here are all the dead people? The Black Death killed millions, so where are they all buried? I鈥檒l find them! With maths!鈥 This tweet, sent by University of Sheffield PhD candidate Alison Atkin (@...

鈥楤ig community鈥 not reached by prestigious programme, study finds. Elizabeth Gibney writes

University Challenge quizmaster Jeremy Paxman has entered the perennial 鈥渄umbing down鈥 debate by claiming that today鈥檚 students are cleverer than their predecessors. Mr Paxman, who has hosted the BBC...
A golden anniversary that does not glisterWe should give two cheers, not three, for the 50th anniversary of the Robbins report (鈥淗ere鈥檚 to class act that challenged tyranny of class in admissions鈥,...

Graduate recruiters doubt comparability of degree results. David Matthews reports