Poorer students face further woes as Treasury targets 'premium' cost
Million+ worried by Willetts' failure to allay fears over widening-participation funds. Jack Grove writes
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Students' unions 'must be able to veto hate speakers'
Islamic society leader warns of linking university attendance and terrorism. John Morgan reports
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NUS head backs EU loans for master's abroad
The National Union of Students president has backed proposals for a European Union loan system for master's students studying abroad.
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Large donations to universities drop 50%
The amount given to universities in £1 million-plus donations almost halved in 2009-10, an annual report from a bank reveals.
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News in brief
Student financial aidBerkeley's middle-class planThe University of California, Berkeley has unveiled plans for a financial aid scheme specifically to help middle-class students with their tuition...
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Add in social value to reveal true worth, report advises
Measuring contributions to quality of life would show academy's full impact. David Matthews writes
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'I sit in a UK library and feel so sorry for my friends in Iran'
Baha'is denied access to state universities face a new threat to their institute. Matthew Reisz reports
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Opportunity to rejuvenate
European universities should look to the US for a route back to excellence, argues Santiago Iñiguez de Onzoño
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Unregulated KIS data overload will baffle, not enlighten, students
Richard Partington fears that the way in which comparative data are presented may deter disadvantaged prospective undergraduates
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There's still 98% to go
Occupy has won more minds than hearts among the public, and that includes scholars and students, says Sunil Manghani
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Willetts meets with private equity firms
David Willetts has met with four more private equity firms as the government considers opening higher education institutions to "private investment".
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
A grand strategist of the Cold War era had moments of burnished majesty, learns Alex Danchev
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The Roof at the Bottom of the World: Discovering the Transantarctic Mountains
The three elements of a polar atlas are fascinating but don't quite make a whole, says Robert Mayhew
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Writing Romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807
While thanking earlier scholars of Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth in the preface to her new book, Jacqueline Labbe remarks that "in researching it I have learned vaster amounts than have made...
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Kiss My Relics: Hermaphroditic Fictions of the Middle Ages
Let's start with the title. It's a shocker. Not only does it suggest, misleadingly, a humorous tome on medieval saints and their appendages, but its register seems quite inappropriate to what is in...