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London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineLess is moreScientists have identified a gene that reduces the risk of younger women contracting breast cancer by lowering their oestrogen levels. A...
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19 April 2012
Stitched up - New student-visa pattern required for a government that has lost the thread
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Restructuring metrics could fail to add up
Queen Mary job cuts may lead to sliding standards and debased teaching. Paul Jump reports
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AAB announcement imminent, as government reflects on ‘strong views’ in sector
David Willetts has said that he intends to let universities know “by the end of the month” whether the grade threshold at which university places are removed from the cap on numbers is to be lowered...
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Private equity firm buys degree-awarding powers
The charitable College of Law, one of only five private providers in the UK with degree-awarding powers, has been sold to a private for-profit firm.
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Degree premium on ice as graduate salaries are frozen
Graduate starting salaries are set to fall to their lowest real-terms level since 2003 this summer as 90 per cent of businesses freeze their offers to recruits, according to analysis released today.
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Inside Higher Ed: No longer afraid to consult
By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed
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Universities’ black and minority ethnic staff still encounter ‘significant disadvantage’
Efforts to promote race equality in higher education have petered out and had "little impact", a conference has heard.
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London Met v-c urged to apologise for alcohol comments
The president of London Metropolitan University students’ union has called for the vice-chancellor to apologise after he suggested the sale of alcohol should be banned from parts of the campus...
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Rammell to take over in Bedfordshire
The University of Bedfordshire has appointed Bill Rammell, formerly a higher education minister under Labour, as its new vice-chancellor.
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Oxbridge appeals to Osborne: allow donors to keep giving generously
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have joined the campaign against a cap on tax relief for philanthropic donations amid fears that it could cost the sector millions of pounds.
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God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell
Much of Blair Worden's recent work has been devoted to exploring the interface between literature and history in early modern England. Marchamont Nedham, Andrew Marvell and John Milton came together...
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College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
Alan Ryan learns what the liberal-arts ideals of the US academy's founders can teach us today
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The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power
Polly Jones is impressed by a rigorous iconography of one of the age of extremes' greatest tyrants