Edinburgh’s Coursera-based Moocs attract 300,000
More than 300,000 people have signed up to the University of Edinburgh’s free massive open online courses (Moocs) since they were first announced in July 2012, it has been revealed.
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Tory MP Tredinnink’s committee selection sparks concern
A Tory MP renowned for pro-homeopathy views has been has been provisionally appointed as a member of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.
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Five committee chairs urge change on overseas students
The chairs of five parliamentary committees have written to the prime minister urging him to remove overseas university students from the net migrant target, highlighting “unprecedented” consensus...
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'Outside the ring-fence, beyond Haldane, the big bucks should stop with the state'
The government has a legitimate role in deciding where approximately £1.5 billion of capital funding outside the science ring-fence should be spent, David Willetts has insisted.Questioned on the...
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John Day, 1931-2012
A highly respected authority on African nationalism and political thinking has died
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Independence pays
Malcolm Gillies believes an Ivy League-type system could benefit the UK
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Family Secrets: Living with Shame from the Victorians to the Present Day by Deborah Cohen
June Purvis on an absorbing study of social change
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Look sharp, the ground is shifting
In a revolutionary era the sector must abandon its traditional reticence to explore a taboo research subject: itself
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Still personal, still political
Miriam David’s reflections on her career as a scholar and feminist inspired her to interview a range of female academics about their paths to the getting of wisdom - and the pivotal role feminism has...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Bleakonomics by Rob Larson
Stewart Lansley on a sobering tale of plutonomy and the ‘failed science’ of economics
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In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Willy Maley reviews an acclaimed Kenyan writer’s memoirs
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Under the Volcano: Revolution in a Sicilian Town by Lucy Riall
Richard Bosworth on the Risorgimento’s local legacy
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Imagining the University by Ronald Barnett
Simon Blackburn on higher education via a postmodern lens