Dons agree with Oxford movement: 鈥榥o confidence鈥 in Willetts
Academics at the University of Oxford have voted through a motion of 鈥渘o confidence鈥 in David Willetts, the universities and science minister.
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New College, curiously familiar courses
Writing course materials for Goldsmiths was a young Gabriel Egan鈥檚 first scholarly work. Two decades later, they鈥檙e part of a 鈥榮uperstar鈥 institution鈥檚 offerings
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PAC minds the gap: MPs sound warning over fees reform
An influential cross-party committee of MPs has warned that the government could face a funding gap of 鈥渟everal hundred million pounds鈥 as a result of its policy on tuition fees and raised the...
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The perils of online 鈥榝riendship鈥
Thinking of befriending your students on a social-media site? You may want to think again. While it may be a good way to meet students 鈥渙n their terms鈥, a lawyer specialising in the use of social...
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Top names, top whack: new humanities-focused institution to charge 拢18K fees
A new private university college is to be launched, specialising in the arts and humanities and charging tuition fees of 拢18,000 a year.
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There鈥檚 good news as well as bad, international educators hear
Universities have been urged to use financial worries as an opportunity to reassess their internationalisation strategies in the spirit of 鈥渘ever letting a good crisis go to waste鈥.
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Opinion: Very in curia practices
In a climate of higher fees and rising unemployment, student litigation is likely to increase. Adam Brett offers his evaluation of what universities must do to stay out of court
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Tobacco cash bad for your moral health, Durham told
Durham University has been urged by a senior official at Cancer Research UK to return funding it received from British American Tobacco.
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Union guns for Salford鈥檚 鈥榳hite elephant鈥 as Sheffield staff strike over pensions
Hundreds of the University of Sheffield鈥檚 lowest-paid workers are on strike today in a dispute over pension cuts, while union officials at the University of Salford claim that a multimillion-pound 鈥...
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The Fate of Greenland: Lessons from Abrupt Climate Change
Rapid global temperature shifts are nothing new, as Steve Yearley learns from a cold country's core
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Pleasure: How Our Brains Make Junk Food, Exercise, Marijuana, Generosity and Gambling Feel so Good
There's more to enjoyment than electrical impulses - Steven Rose feels better distinction should be made
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You Can Help Your Country: English Children's Work during the Second World War
When we think of children in the Second World War, a common image is that of evacuees bound for the countryside. The war, and in particular the German air raid attacks that led to the widespread...
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Shakespeare: From Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592-1623
Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 March, four years after it closed for a redevelopment costing 拢115 million. On 30 March, the coalition...
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The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games
Tom Palaima agrees that people's fascination with watching violence against others doesn't change
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Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to be Human
During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln upbraided a critic by asking "do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" Scott Atran wants the US to follow Abe's example by, if not...