Milburn: Russell Group not doing enough on access
The proportion of students entering Russell Group universities who are state-educated has fallen in the last decade, a report from a government commission on social mobility has said.
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Liverpool move on contracts sparks anger
The University of Liverpool has been accused of “putting a gun to the head” of almost 3,000 staff who a union says face losing their jobs unless they accept altered working terms and conditions
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Knighthoods go to Bristol and UCL V-cs
The Queen’s Birthday Honours List includes a knighthood for Eric Thomas, the University of Bristol vice-chancellor and Universities UK president
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Student loan proposals ‘outrageous’, says Labour
The government should urgently clarify its plans for the sale of the student loan book and reassure existing graduates that their repayments will not be raised, according to Labour’s shadow higher...
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G8 science ministers endorse open access
Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research.
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Graduate job search 'starting earlier than ever’
Students are starting their search for a graduate job earlier than ever, a new survey has revealed.
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THE podcast: 13 June 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThis week’s issue review looks at the number of women professors in UK universities, our ever-popular Books section, and the growing number of student complaints against higher...
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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad
By whom, and for what reasons, has development throughout the “poorer nations” of the global South been thwarted in the post-colonial era? Vijay Prashad’s book offers an unambiguous answer to this...
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Roman Palmyra: Identity, Community, and State Formation by Andrew M. Smith II
When, before AD77, Pliny the Elder remarked that Palmyra “had its own fate” between the Roman and Parthian empires, what had been a remote oasis in the Syrian desert a century earlier was becoming a...
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Soaring dragon leaves neoliberals at a loss
Yongjin Zhang considers a meticulous effort to unwrap the riddle inside an Eastern enigma
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Liberty and Security by Conor Gearty
The argument that the “War on Terror” and counter-terrorist measures are a threat to civil liberties is not a new one. In the current climate of austerity, it is not surprising that the enjoyment of...
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The Invention of Craft by Glenn Adamson
Craft, in Glenn Adamson’s view, has continuously referred to a process or an activity rather than a discipline on its own. Adamson, head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, has written...
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We have lift-off
It’s not just hot air: balloons allow our historical imaginations to soar, Robert J. Mayhew discovers
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Abstract accuracy
Alex Danchev applauds a study of one of the 20th century’s greatest thinker-painters