University is about job prospects, say parents
Only a quarter of parents believe the primary purpose of university is to broaden children’s minds, according to a new survey.
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Student finds historic letter from women's rights campaigner
A PhD student at the University of St Andrews has discovered a letter pleading with the institution to allow women to study medicine and written by one of the pioneers of the fight to allow female...
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Former head of energy giant approved as EPSRC chair
The former head of energy firm E.ON UK will become chair of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council after his appointment was approved by MPs.
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University fees tipping point reached
Tuition fees and education contracts took over from funding body grants as the most important income source for UK universities in the most recent full academic year, according to the latest...
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Fee cap frozen for English universities
The maximum tuition fees that can be charged by universities in England are to be frozen at £9,000 for the 2013-14 academic year, the government has announced.
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Fixing Drugs: The Politics of Drug Prohibition
David Nutt applauds a well-balanced evaluation of narcotics law, with all its inconsistencies and flaws
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Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation
A grand biological theory for what makes us so special does not convince Steven Rose
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The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
This is a very unexpected book. Brad Gregory's first book, Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, was much admired: a detailed, scholarly work that stayed fairly firmly in...
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The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
After Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion comes the reply. Wham bam! Rupert Sheldrake takes on the "truth-finding religion" of science in general and "ten dogmas" of the 21st-century worldview in...
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Check this out: aisle be listening
Supermarkets' consumer-led strategies proposed as a 'model for institutions'. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Government departments'Keep universities under BIS'The author of a major review into the future of collaborations between universities and business has suggested that higher education should stay in...
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De Montfort ga ga as Queen selects it for Jubilee party
Staff and students 'pinching themselves' over monarch's choice of launch pad. Paul Jump writes
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Open equation, but perhaps it is 'unintelligible'
The future of open access to academic work was high on the agenda as researchers and leading scientific publishers came face to face at a debate in Oxford.The Scientific Evolution: Open Science and...
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Open-ended answers for questions of demand in cash-strapped Europe
Open courseware is a shop window and a pressure valve, Delft leader argues. Jack Grove reports
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Bumpy ride in California's international student drive
UCLA hopes campus culture shock will ease as overseas cash boosts income. Phil Baty reports