Quantitative easing
The UK's data-skills gap must be filled for the good of the social sciences and society at large, argues Ian Diamond
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Pack a moral compass when branching out or risk losing your way
Bruce Macfarlane asks UK universities involved in the overseas gold rush: what price profit if you abandon your values?
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A necessary monster
As long as Ian Brady lives, he serves a useful function for society, argues Lisa Downing - as a convenient cultural repository for evil
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Affluent neighbours obscure true number of poor put off by fees
Experts say many young people deterred by fear of debt are missed by Polar data. Jack Grove reports
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Put bursary funds in pupils' pockets to improve access, Milburn says
Universities should take millions of pounds set aside for bursaries and tuition-fee discounts for poor students and use it to fund a new education allowance for teenagers, a report says.The study by...
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Global outrage over suspension
Chomsky among those decrying the removal of a Manchester Met professor. Jack Grove writes
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Capital idea, but we'll be buried if the market crashes
Dissenters raise concerns over Cambridge bond issue's property element. John Morgan reports
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Cash for quantitative and qualitative change
A £15.5 million fund aimed at promoting the teaching of quantitative social science has been unveiled.Departments or groups of departments will be able to bid for up to £350,000 a year over the next...
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Share of the public piggybank
UK elite's proportion of income from state sources
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Decimation explanation: theories expounded for colleges' shortfall
Conference considers reasons for 10 per cent drop in HE in FE numbers. David Matthews writes
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USC aims to reap what fees rise has sown
A leading US university has seen a "stupendous" increase in interest from UK students since the hike in tuition fees introduced by the coalition government.Katharine Harrington, vice-president of...
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Nice publicity, shame about the pedagogy
Take Mooc claims with a pinch of salt, manager advises technology conference. Chris Parr reports
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For vocational holes, a bit of poly may be the right filler
MP and historian Tristram Hunt tells John Morgan about reviving lost skills and improving teaching
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Seals culled: symbolic shift signals rise of the market
But losing the owls from university brands may not be such a wise move. Matthew Reisz reports
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'Of' is off - official
"This really is the big one!"That was how Roger Placement, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, described the fundamental shift in university nomenclature that will be introduced to all our...