Wellcome Trust to boost early career funding
Trust director Jeremy Farrar says more fellowships and seed grants will address pinch points
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£9K fees may fuel rise in split degrees
More study divided between college and university could be on the horizon, expert says
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Post-war higher education: Robbins mysteries, History Boys myths
Peter Mandler, Royal Historical Society president, to speak on post-war ‘escalator’ in university access
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Campus close-up: Cardiff University
A planned Cardiff Innovation System built on regenerated Cathays site will bring ideas together to create, innovate and translate
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Delta State University aims to get its blues mojo working
Jon Marcus reports from Cleveland, Mississippi on an institution pinning hopes on a musical heritage
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Get on board or get out, Murdoch University chancellor tells staff
David Flanagan’s email to 43 academics said that those who felt unable to support the institution’s ‘vision’ should leave
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Regional influence: universities as the new local authorities
Jim O’Neill on how institutions outside London can do more to retain graduates and create jobs with government help
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Beyond political prejudice
A surprising graduation talk on climate change causes Sally Feldman to question her biases
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Sir David Bell, Nick Bevan, Nigel Rodenhurst, Constantine Sandis and Peter J. Smith...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom, by Joy Hendry
Philip Clarke asks whether ecological issues can be solved by studying aboriginal knowledge
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British Women’s Life Writing, 1760-1840, by Amy Culley
Clare Brant on a form of writing that offers a unique insight into the private lives of women
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Greed: From Gordon Gekko to David Hume, by Stewart Sutherland
Martin Cohen on a brief but powerful look at the history of avarice in society and what can be done to temper its more extreme elements
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Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy, by Peter Temin and David Vines
A petite primer with grand ambitions excels in its secondary themes, says Michelle Baddeley
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The Edge of Extinction: Travels with Enduring People in Vanishing Lands, by Jules Pretty
Tim Hall on a travelogue, covering 12 locations, with an abundance of ecological and cultural insights
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Lies, Passions & Illusions: The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century, by François Furet
Vladimir Tismaneanu lauds a posthumous and provocative work that reflects on the past but also on the current European predicament