Sir Eric Thomas: plunge in part-time study now ‘much higher priority’
Bristol v-c admits he did not know who was in charge of policy at his institution when he led UUK review
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Work experience: a good idea in theory
Nearly all undergraduates say placements and advice are valuable, but less than half end up using them, survey finds
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Campus close-up: University of Southampton
Engineering and maritime technology campus being redeveloped at Boldrewood in collaboration with industry partner
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Wealthy students ‘should pay higher fees’
Charges could help to subsidise poor students, says Northwestern University president
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Deepwater Horizon disaster spurs research into underwater ecology
BP-funded oceanographers warn of the dangers of neglecting research
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The power of small steps
Libya’s education system requires reform, but effective change can come incrementally, says Darren L. Linvill
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No standard offering of aid for dyslexia
Efforts to help identify and support students vary widely among institutions
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Magna Charta Observatory seeks secretary-general to lead mission
Pan-European body based in Bologna works to promote the academy’s humanist vocation. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments
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Wedding toast
Malcolm Gillies celebrates a watershed moment on the long road to equality
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Variety Acts and Turns of the Early 1930s
Music hall constantly adapted to survive, yet the cultural form is often dismissed. Fern Riddell considers our collective memory
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Laurence Coupe, W. P. Griffith, Roger Morgan, Becky Peterson and Peter J. Smith...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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1611: Authority, Gender and the Word in Early Modern England, by Helen Wilcox
Helen Smith takes a tour of a landmark year in literary and religious Jacobean culture
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Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes, by Svante Pääbo
Simon Underdown on a gripping account of the reconstruction of the first genome recovered from an extinct human species
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel
Hazel Christie relishes a polished and powerful narrative that explains how memory works
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Walden Warming: Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods, by Richard B. Primack
Jules Pretty salutes an account revealing an unnerving alteration in a place and its ecosystems