Are radical journals selling out?
Well, they’re not doing badly. But in a world in which capitalism is in crisis, the Left is moribund, activists are slick professionals and rebellion drives sales, Alastair Bonnett envisages a new...
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Kropotkin's heirs apparent
Alan Ryan on Occupy Wall Street, a refreshingly rational anarchist movement
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3 November 2011
Critical vanguard - Radical journals, maverick voices and the search for solutions
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Ditch conservatism to survive, universities told
Universities will have to ditch the conservatism that has allowed them to survive in the past and change at a much greater pace if they are to prosper in the future, a professor at the Massachusetts...
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Campaigners battle plans to close UEA's School of Music
A campaign has been launched to save the University of East Anglia’s School of Music after an internal review recommended its closure.
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Visa crackdown puts 450 colleges out of the international student business
More than 450 private colleges have been stopped from recruiting international students after most of them failed to sign up to the 糖心Vlog Office’s new rules for inspection of the sector.
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Social scientists and politicians ‘falling short’ on policymaking
Governments are often right to be sceptical about the over-ambitious claims of social scientists, a leading sociologist has argued.
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Lancaster to set up shop in China
Lancaster University has announced plans to collaborate with Guangdong University of Foreign Studies to build a new university campus in Guangzhou, China.
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Scholar in row over Gaddafi ties is to leave LSE
An academic involved in the scandal over links between the Gaddafi regime and the London School of Economics is to leave the institution ahead of a report into the affair.
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Royal Society to launch into the great wide open
Top researchers in biology have yet another publishing option following the launch of a major open-access journal by the Royal Society.
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Inside Higher Ed: When a professor shouts ‘Death to Israel’
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Overhaul of regulatory framework poses 'major challenges'
Funding chiefs in England have told the government they have “concerns” about the timetable for implementing a new regulatory framework for higher education, warning the challenge of bringing in some...
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Ucas launches consultation on post-results admissions system
Proposals have been published for the biggest shake-up in university admissions for 50 years.
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Cobra beer peer says student visa changes are ‘nonsense’
A businessman and cross-bench peer has criticised government plans to dramatically reduce the number of student visas.
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Employers and UCU to reconvene pension talks following ‘work to rule’ action
Employers have agreed to hold fresh talks with the University and College Union over the sector’s biggest pension fund, following the start of industrial action.