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Six leading universities cancel last two weeks of semester after campuses left looking like war zones
Studying the arts and humanities has been a core tenet of democratic ambitions for centuries, so it’s no surprise that underfunding those areas of academia throws democracies into crisis, argues...
Lord Kerslake, chair of UK2070 Commission, calls for ‘MIT of the North’ and ‘HE-FE systems’ in deprived towns
Findings highlight need for ‘carefully considered’ use of platform as an educational tool
Raj Kumar wants greater focus on liberal arts studies, against existing preoccupation with science
Rivka Isaacson is fascinated by an adventurous journey along the frontier between arts and science
Eleanor Lybeck explores the striking links between ‘textual overproduction’ in the 19th century and today
Figures show that even disciplines with a high share of female technical staff have few women at the top
Jeff Ferrell is thrilled by a street’s eye view of the adventure of graffiti writing
Peter J. Smith enjoys a vivid, if perhaps idealised, account of life in one of the world’s great breweries
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Boris Johnson pledges to double public spending on research and development to £18 billion over course of next parliament
Across the world, vice-chancellors’ statesmanship is being put to the test because no campus can escape the intrusion of politics, domestic and international
Book of the week: Deborah D. Rogers and Howard P. Segal find that the old ideals of meritocracy have been squeezed out of American higher education