A pox on all their hustings
As a current student, a former Liberal Democrat voter and a very vocal critic of the coalition and its plans for higher education (and indeed the rest of the country), I should probably agree with...
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Actions speak louder
I note that among the candidates aiming to be the University and College Union's general secretary next year, the incumbent is a member of the Labour Party while a well-placed challenger from UCU...
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Highly irritable
Yvonne H. Howell gives a rightly enthusiastic review of Nikolai Krementsov's A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science, his stimulating study of the...
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Story doesn't add up
So The Australian newspaper reports that two in five academics under 30 wish to leave their jobs, and that for those "between the ages of 30 and 40 the figure is even higher, as much as one in three...
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Oxford v-c urges support for postgrad loan plan
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has called for "serious consideration" to be given to a proposal for a government-backed loan for taught postgraduate students.
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Film review: Sleeping Beauty
The sterile detachment of an alienated half-life gives way to the pain of rebirth, observes Will Brooker
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TV review: The Truth about Child Brides
Doing dishes, scrubbing floors and 'not screaming' are the lessons of the child bride, says Gary Day
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Michael Costeloe, 1939-2011
"Infectious enthusiasm" for his subject and skill at spinning a yarn earned Michael Costeloe the respect and admiration of staff and students alike.Born in Bishop Auckland, County Durham on 12 March...
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Campus round-up
Keele UniversityCollaboration bears fruitA British university has awarded its first degrees to students in Malaysia. Keele University made the awards to more than 100 students in two ceremonies...
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Odds and quads
In 1894, a young Jewish artillery officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of betraying French military secrets to the Germans and sentenced to solitary confinement in French Guiana. It soon...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Young at heart: Harvard at 375 shows appetite for risk-taking
The president of the US' pre-eminent university is planning an innovative future. Jon Marcus reports
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The week in higher education
? The head of the private New College of the Humanities has said that the institution, which will charge tuition fees of ?18,000 a year, will interview candidates rather than determine entry based...
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From where I sit - Are PhD students being served?
German universities may be focused on improving their research, but doctoral students have highlighted serious flaws in their teaching.The Deutsche Universit?tszeitung (German University Newspaper),...