The fruits of Californication
The Golden State's mix of public planning, spin-off innovation and private excellence has made it one of the global academy's powerhouses. But funding cuts threaten the University of California's pre...
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Film review: Hereafter
Duncan Wu stares longingly towards the emergency exit during Clint Eastwood's supernatural stinker
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TV review: The lost generation
Gary Day on the plight of young people in Britain today, protecting the consumer and finding love
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13 January 2011
Freshly squeezed - California鈥檚 world-class university system fights budgetary constraints
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Oxford demands star quality from candidates
The University of Oxford has announced that it will start asking for A* grades at A level.
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Tara Brabazon: The science of seeing
Visual media educators have a great choice of technological wizardry they can employ to enhance their teaching, writes Tara Brabazon
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Cut 鈥榖urdensome鈥 red tape stifling medical research, report urges
Health research in the UK is being 鈥渟tifled鈥 by excessive regulation, a report by the Academy of Medical Sciences has concluded.
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Millbank protester imprisoned for violent disorder
The protester who threw a fire extinguisher from the roof of Conservative Party headquarters during a tuition-fee demonstration has been jailed for 32 months.
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Inside Higher Ed: An open, digital professoriat
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Ex-minister joins Plymouth鈥檚 ranks
A former minister for higher education during Labour鈥檚 days in power has been appointed deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Plymouth.
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Acclaimed Cuban film school trains its focus on 鈥榗inema and life鈥
Inside the main building of the International School of Film and Television (EICTV) in Cuba, the atmosphere is a mixture of warm conviviality and frenetic hard work. Each year, around 500 applicants...
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鈥業nexplicable delays鈥 in disclosure of teacher-training funding
The group representing university teacher-training centres has written to Michael Gove, the education secretary, to complain about 鈥渋nexplicable delays鈥 in the announcement of funding allocations for...
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The 126th MLA annual convention: something for everyone
In the middle of the week, downtown Los Angeles was very much its usual self 鈥 with teenagers lining up to catch glimpses of the celebrities emerging from this year鈥檚 People鈥檚 Choice awards.
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Blowout in the Gulf: The BP Oil Spill Disaster and the Future of Energy in America
Hugh Gorman on a narrative that places the BP Gulf oil spill in context with the US' energy policy
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My Life on Mars: The Beagle 2 Diaries
Jon Turney probes the maverick mind and the bickering behind an interplanetary voyage