Guiding light in death's shadow
Greats back humanities' role in democratic health and personal consolation. Matthew Reisz writes
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Shared-service savings could mitigate £2.9bn funding cut
Joining forces to finance services could yield total near to budget reduction. Simon Baker writes
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Summer schools 'improve access - keep them'
Funding for the Aimhigher scheme may be ending in 2011, but the lessons of its success in widening access to university through summer schools "need to be taken forward into the new policy...
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News in brief
MergersCombination in principleTwo universities have agreed in principle to merge and create a single institution for southwest Wales. Swansea Metropolitan University and the University of Wales...
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Tête-à -tête with the bird brains
Matthew Reisz on the neurologists probing the social side of clever corvids and teenage dreamers
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Odds and quads
This handbill alerted Londoners to a rare opportunity to see "two kaamas's" - probably tapirs - "at the sign of the Coach and Horses" in Charing Cross, London.
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Broad courses give 'dying' subjects new lease of life
Aberdeen students buck trend and grab chance to study foreign languages. Hannah Fearn writes
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From beer to austerity, familiar scenes of panic on the streets
Founding fathers of 'moral panic' thesis discuss its modern manifestations. Matthew Reisz writes
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The liberal art of nation-building
A liberal arts education will help to strengthen the state of Israel, according to a think tank that plans to open Israel's first liberal arts college.
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It's the breadth that matters
Liberal arts degrees are appearing in the UK and arousing much interest. Protagonists claim that the wide-ranging education provides more rounded individuals who are better prepared for modern...
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Mixed reception
The high tuition fees paid by overseas students are an attractive source of revenue in these straitened times. But will higher education reforms change all that? Matthew Partridge investigates
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Reality checks
Academics have long been criticised for being out of touch with the real world. Matthew Reisz finds that many make great efforts to dispel ivory tower attitudes, but others believe such habits will...
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Film review: The Next Three Days
Duncan Wu suspends his disbelief to enjoy Russell Crowe as a gun-toting, all-action college teacher
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TV review: Wing and a prayer
The butterfly encourages people's imagination to take flight, says Gary Day, but are its days numbered?
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23 December 2010
Back in vogue - Is liberal arts study the ideal education for the 21st century?