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12 April 2012
Pounds, pence and perils - Financial health check: are universities ready for the new funding regime?
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Passion drives students, not urge to cash in, survey finds
Passion for a subject remains the number one reason for going to university, outpacing the desire to improve job prospects, according to a poll of young people.
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Cambridge Pre-U pitches for support as battle over A levels continues
An alternative examination to A levels is gaining a foothold in state schools, its creators claim.
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Ministers risk ‘debacle’ with core and margin delay
Newer universities have criticised the government for delaying the announcement of student number controls in 2013-14.
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Welsh funding council ‘forces through’ 20 per cent cut in places
The University of Wales, Newport, has started “emergency discussions” after the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales confirmed that the number of students entering the institution will be cut...
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Inside Higher Ed: A call to respect rights
By Mitch Smith, for Inside Higher Ed
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World Reputation Rankings a hot topic at Going Global
The launch of the 2012 ߣߣƵ World Reputation Rankings was a hot topic at the British Council’s Going Global conference in London last month. Here, rankings editor Phil Baty talks to...
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US pay rises fail to match inflation
Full-time academic staff in US universities continued to receive below-inflation pay rises in 2011-12, a report has found.
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Thinktank’s plans to spread university news to the poor
Bolder measures are required to ensure students from poorer families have access to information about university courses, a thinktank has said.
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Government’s sums must be right…or else, says Hefce head
The head of England’s funding council has warned that government calculations on student loan repayments “have got to turn out to be robust” if the new higher education system is to be financially...
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Four-fifths of institutions set to spend at least £5m on estates ‘wow factor’
Almost eight in ten UK universities will embark on major capital projects worth more than £5 million in the next year as they face up to fiercer competition for students under the new regime.
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Language: The Cultural Tool
Kerstin Hoge takes a trip into the heart of functionalism with a maverick iconoclast
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An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization
A reminder of pedagogy's power to reach beyond the logic of capital enthuses Shahidha Bari
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On Sacrifice
Philosopher Moshe Halbertal distinguishes two kinds of sacrifice: sacrifice to and sacrifice for. Sacrifice "to", which is older, means a gift, as in the giving of an animal or even a human to a god...