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Phil Baty reports on a declaration on world university league tables from a consortium of Latin American university rectors agreed in Mexico City
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Willetts confirms university title changes
Ministers are to move forward with plans to lower the qualifying threshold for university title from 4,000 to 1,000 students, the government has confirmed.
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Inside Higher Ed: 鈥榊ou鈥檙e not special鈥
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Call to focus on 鈥榮tudent outcomes鈥, not lecturer qualifications, in US university accreditation
Accreditation of US universities should depend less on 鈥渋nput鈥 measures, such as the number of lecturers with PhDs, and more on measures of outputs such as student loan default rates.
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UK gains 拢227,000 for every student with A levels and a degree, study claims
The economy is boosted by 拢227,000 for every student the state puts through A levels and a degree, a report has found.
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Reforms will drain Lords of scientific expertise, argues CaSE
At least 30 per cent of the membership of a reformed House of Lords should be independently appointed if scientific expertise is not to be lost, a lobby group has claimed.
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Obama and the Middle East: The End of America's Moment?
No we can't? Four decades of US dominance in the Gulf may be drawing to a close, says Philip Robins
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Loser Sons: Politics and Authority
Scott Sandage meets the political offspring who make a mark for all the wrong reasons
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Inventing Chemistry: Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
Why should the general reader take an interest in the Dutch medical teacher Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738)? The most important reason is that in his day, the medical faculty at the University of Leiden...
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The Metamorphoses of Kinship
Has the study of "kinship", always something of an esoteric specialism for the general reader, really faded from mainstream anthropology itself? A concept of the kinship-based society began with...
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The Prosperity of Vice: A Worried View of Economics
Increasing globalisation may not bring peace, but Howard Davies glimpses a digital way ahead
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The Cold War and After: History, Theory, and the Logic of International Politics
Marc Trachtenberg, of the University of California, Los Angeles, is unusual among US international relations specialists in being deeply committed to historical approaches and methods, and in...
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The Ethics of Transplants: Why Careless Thought Costs Lives
Organs for transplantation come from other human beings, who may be alive or dead at the time of donation. Each option entails emotive and ethical issues, compounded by the fact that the number of...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences鈥 Award winner: Nabeel Affara鈥 Institution: University of Cambridge鈥 Value: 拢244,745Control of offspring sex ratio by spermatid genes that evade...
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It's time to treatise myself
Preparing to retire after 16 years as a v-c, John Craven is dreaming of a new philosophy - and being a student again