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Sensible economic actors' script says spend, spend, spend on marketing
Income from higher tuition fees will flow into universities' expanding marketing departments and budget surpluses rather than efforts to improve the student experience, a round-table discussion on...
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Examination of mental anguish
Doctoral student told to 'completely rewrite' PhD takes sense of injustice to OIA
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A transformative activity
In education as in nature, feedback should lead to change, says David Boud - and courses must be reshaped to allow it
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'One strike and you're out' sends a damaging message to the world
The UKBA's revocation of London Met's licence to accept non-EU students is detrimental to our global reputation, says Eric Thomas
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News in brief
United StatesPremature litigationA federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit issued by a US college against the Obama administration's "contraception mandate". District judge Ellen Segal Huvelle rejected...
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Grant winners
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode GrantsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ.? Award winner: Alasdair Nisbet? Institution: Moredun Research...
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Overseas students should not count towards net migration, say MPs
A committee of MPs has called on the government to exclude overseas students from figures on net migration, warning that current policy risks "undermining a world class export market".
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The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
An exploration of the dark side of the neuroscience force leaves Tristan Bekinschtein hungry for more
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Is American Science in Decline?
The popular narrative of US intellectual decay proves wide of the mark, James Wilsdon writes
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Groove Music: The Art and Culture of the Hip-Hop DJ
In its earliest form, the music and culture of hip hop boasted five key areas of activity: break-dance, graffiti, rap, DJ'ing and knowledge. Each of these so-called tenets of hip hop has come under...
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Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power
This book is a useful addition to the scholarly sub-literature on what philanthropic foundations do, how they do it and, according to the Marxist and Gramscian ideological traditions, why they do it...
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Like a Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex
Sarah Conner is diverted by the idea of a future in which sperm is no longer a reproductive prerequisite
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A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman
During an appearance on a US talk show in 1980, the novelist Mary McCarthy was asked to name the writers she considered most overrated. At the top of her list was Lillian Hellman, the playwright,...
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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Qing imperial government categorised the Taiping conflict of 1851-64 as a mere rebellion but, as Stephen Platt points out in this lucid and gripping account, in fact it was a major civil war, one...