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This hepatic trocar - a late 19th-century surgical instrument for the treatment of deep-seated liver abscesses - forms part of the collection at what is now the London School of Hygiene and Tropical...
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Appointments
Conde Nast College of Fashion and DesignKate ChealThe new senior lecturer in e-learning at the soon-to-be-opened Conde Nast College of Fashion and Design said she hoped to create a technological...
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London Met banned from enrolling overseas students
University is first ever to lose its licence to sponsor non-EU students. Jack Grove writes
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30 August 2012
Price-tag projections - What do deeply invested US students tell us about our high-fees future?
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Carnesky's Tarot Drome
Marisa Carnesky’s new theatrical homage to the carnivalesque is a divinely divinatory affair, Roberta Mock discovers
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The mañana project
Chile’s education minister says reform is coming at last to its costly, largely privatised academy - but at a ‘slower pace’. Will it satisfy those who joined widespread protests calling for...
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Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer
Deborah Rogers is moved by a feminist scholar’s meditation on the body, medicine and mortality
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Copycat criminality
Christopher Bigsby on plagiarism in the cut-and-paste era
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Reassuringly expensive
Fees needn't mean the end of scholarly values, argues Felipe Fernández-Armesto. For his US students, putting a price on learning just makes it more desirable
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Wendy Surridge, 1960-2012
A "fun-loving" university administrator who spearheaded the expansion of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has died.Wendy Surridge was born in Beckenham, Kent on 28 July 1960...
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Campus round-up
University College LondonRichly altruisticAn experiment has provided evidence that people living in richer areas are more likely to behave altruistically. A team of researchers from the anthropology...
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Go to university? It's not worth it
One in two people believe a university education is not worth £9,000 a year, a poll has found.
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Inside Higher Ed: Sodom, Gomorrah…Yale?
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Unions left 'in the dark' over outsource plans
Senior management at a university have been accused of keeping staff "in the dark" about plans to outsource some support services.