Share the dream and state the case
To secure our future in hard times, we must make tough choices and ensure that society is aware of higher education鈥檚 value, argues Paul Marshall
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Inside Higher Ed: Transgender athletes, college teams
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Let scientists think, entrepreneurs create business opportunities and graduates pay more
Scientists must be liberated from the idea that they are 鈥渏ust cogs in an economic machine鈥, the Conservative Party conference has heard.
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Research identifies quintuple threat if fees cap is lifted
Degree-course fees are likely to escalate rapidly and could reach as much as five times the current sum if the existing cap is lifted, an education charity has warned.
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An estate of mind: learning to build the perfect campus
Defining institutional mission is the cornerstone of a successful development, Matthew Reisz hears
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Tribunal finds in favour of Gloucestershire whistleblower
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institution鈥檚 finances.
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鈥楥ultivate minds that can integrate, avoid too much specialisation鈥
The president of the University of Chicago has defended the notion of a wide-ranging university education that cultivates the 鈥渉abit of mind to integrate ideas鈥, in the face of employers鈥 demands for...
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UCU warns of top position in a ranking to avoid
England could become the most expensive country in the world in which to study at a public university in light of Lord Browne of Madingley鈥檚 review of fees and funding, the main lecturers鈥 union has...
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Book of the Week: Delusions of Gender: The Real Science Behind Sex Differences
A cutting critique of the sexism of neuroscience - the phrenology du jour - made Hilary Rose chuckle in agreement
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The End of Discovery: Are We Approaching the Boundaries of the Knowable?
Simon Mitton seeks a more philosophical view of the state of knowledge in theoretical physics
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Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity
Few people talk straight when it comes to sex - even otherwise very straight people tend to become coy, facetious, sanctimonious or simply silent. This book examines the role played by Greece and...
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The Canon: Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
"Problem-posing education is revolutionary futurity. Hence it is prophetic (and, as such, hopeful)." So wrote Brazilian educator Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed (1968), one of the 20th...
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To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
A detailed and informed social critique of Christianity in the US today fascinates Keith Ward
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Attlee: A Life in Politics
A biographer of Clement Attlee faces the problem that his subject may, as Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds concedes, have had "no significant personality at all". Most contemporaries seem to have agreed that...
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The Political Power of Bad Ideas: Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave
The back cover of Mark Lawrence Schrad's book describes it as a tour de force. Drawing on research in three different languages (Russian, Swedish and English), with 65 pages of footnotes, it merits...