Students who fail to gain a place at university this year should consider the 鈥渞ange of other options鈥 available, such as apprenticeships and work experience, before deciding to reapply in future,...
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Plans to increase VAT on e-books to 20 per cent will not only affect university libraries but will also inhibit research and learning and the digital economy, the organisation representing the UK and...
The success of forensic science must not blind the discipline to the truths to be gleaned from studying the chaos of criminality, argues Stephen Wade
Reform of university employment contracts, pensions and taxation is needed if the higher education sector is to find efficiency savings in the age of austerity, a mission group report has warned.The...
Graduate employment rates vary widely between universities, according to figures published today.The proportion of graduates who say they are working or studying six months after graduation ranges...
Vince Cable has opened the door to radical changes in the structure and funding of higher education in a landscape of reduced public investment, with potential innovations including bigger graduate...
No filter: Mathew White on our readiness to swallow the hype that costs us the Earth
Christopher Innes on the first collection of essays to focus on a single British playwright of the 1990s
We have all heard a story or two about parents who disapprove of their children's choice of spouse. Whether we think of the star-crossed lovers in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet or the Draytons in...
The notion that the Irish were exiles driven out of Ireland by poverty, hardship and English colonialism was hardly new when, in 1985, Kerby Miller's weighty, learned study hit the bookshelves. After...
Anthony King on a law scholar's ambitious plan to give the UK its own governmental charter at last
This new volume consists of eight chapters written by nine contributors who between them have experience of continuing education in more than a dozen universities. They illustrate the issues that...
Tony Judt applies the ominous Oliver Goldsmith soundbite that provides this book's title to a Western world afflicted by economic crisis, gross inequalities, insecurity and fear. One of his messages...
If you look past its idiosyncratic style, Chris Howls believes this book's underlying message adds up