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
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‘Wolf of Northampton’ Nick Petford defended after criticism
UCU letter calls celebration of ‘laddish’ behaviour ‘disturbing’
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England sees 24 per cent drop in students from European Union
Fall is major factor in student numbers from abroad dropping for first time in almost three decades
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UK has ‘lowest drop-out rate in Europe’
The UK has the lowest higher education drop-out rate in Europe, a new study shows.
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Gowns and mortarboards ‘could be compulsory’ under Gove
Proposals part of raft of measures on the table if education secretary gains HE
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THE podcast: Sir Tim O’Shea interview
Download the podcastUniversity of Edinburgh principal Sir Tim O’Shea discusses why his institution is so keen to increase the number of massive open online courses that it offers.Sir Tim says he can...
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Liam Byrne: ‘Funding system combines worst of a free-for-all and a money pit’
The last few days have seen much speculation about Labour’s position on the financing of higher education.We will set out our plans in due course but Ed Miliband has articulated a clear direction of...
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New Coursera chief pledges better communication with partners
The incoming head of the largest massive open online course provider has pledged to improve the way it communicates with its university partners.
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Liberal arts college libraries take on publishers over ebooks
By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed
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Softening of line on Open Access-only REF
Non-OA journals acceptable only when they are “the most appropriate publication”
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GCHQ watches over cyber security degrees
GCHQ, the UK’s surveillance agency, is to offer official certification for master’s degrees in cyber security.
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Osborne praises doctoral training centres
George Osborne has predicted that 22 new Centres for Doctoral Training will “inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers”.
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Private college funding to hit £1 billion
Nearly £1 billion in state-backed funding will be paid to students at private colleges next year.
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Universities ‘shape future elites’ through soft power, say peers
Lords committee also becomes sixth Parliamentary group to call for students to be removed from net migration count
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THE books podcast: Richard Evans interview
Download the podcastIn the latest ߣߣƵ books podcast, Sir Richard Evans, regius professor of modern history and president of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, talks to THE...