Promotion of graduate premium is tantamount to 'mis-selling'
Elusive notion will mislead students and foul loan forecasts, experts hear. John Morgan writes
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InternationalisationOverseas underwritingThe UK's universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support British universities' overseas expansion while suggesting that the...
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Rock-solid way to sweeten proposal
Session at ESRC festival to reveal secrets of a successful grant application. Paul Jump reports
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Loughborough denies sleep unit is trapped in nightmare scenario
But professor claims Sleep Research Centre has been sidelined by REF strategy. Paul Jump reports
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Cure capitalism to make markets by the people, for the people
Academy called upon to help correct increasingly corrupt economic system. Matthew Reisz reports
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Greater value than money
Innovation oughtn't mean just profit-making technology - there is a subtler, social sort, explains Nick Petford
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If those who pay the pipers call the tune, make the fact public
Universities must disclose scholars' financial conflicts of interest or the integrity of faculty opinion will be jeopardised, says Cary Nelson
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Seducing the Subconscious: The Psychology of Emotional Influence in Advertising
Isabelle Szmigin examines how billboards and commercials lure us into buying certain products
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A Kingdom United: Popular Responses to the Outbreak of the First World War in Britain and Ireland
The public response in the UK to the approach of war and its outbreak in August 1914 has been depicted by many historians as one of irrational enthusiasm, fever and jingoism. It is a view that has...
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Shakespeare in America
At the time of writing, Shakespeare's Globe is staging his oeuvre in a variety of languages including King John in Armenian, Hamlet in Lithuanian and Troilus and Cressida in Maori. There is also a...
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Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis
Plugging the income gap could prevent another economic landslide, discovers Stewart Lansley
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Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Man: Psychoanalysis and Masculinity
The title of this important book echoes both Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird and Henry Louis Gates Jr's Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man. Like Stevens and Gates,...
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The Intelligence Paradox: Why the Intelligent Choice Isn't Always the Smart One
Calling himself a scientific fundamentalist, evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa does not shy away from controversy. Arguing with fundamentalists is usually futile, but when his latest book...
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'Breakaway professor' shock
One of our leading professors has admitted that he might be leaving his present post at our university to set up his own private college.Speaking to our reporter Keith Ponting (30), Professor Gordon...
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'Inconvenient truths' of open-access plans (1 of 2)
The Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings led by Dame Janet Finch concludes that there should be a "clear policy direction" favouring open access. This has been welcomed by...