Share of graduates in low-skilled work rises
More than one in three recent graduates are working in lower-skilled jobs compared with around one in four a decade ago, according to new data from the Office of National Statistics.
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Inside Higher Ed: Off limits
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Universities failing to consult students on access - NUS
Two-thirds of universities have failed to adequately consult students on their access agreements, the National Union of Students has claimed.
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'Name and shame' threat to universities over low pay
Two unions have threatened to use a new campaign to "name and shame" universities that fail to award all staff a "living wage".The National Union of Students and Unison said all employees in higher...
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Sally Hunt wins landslide in UCU general secretary poll
Sally Hunt has been re-elected as general secretary of the University and College Union after defeating her only opponent Mark Campbell by a margin of 6,835 votes and gaining 73 per cent of the...
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Controversial head of college 'suspended'
The head of a higher education college criticised for her management style and handling of course cuts has been suspended from her full role, ߣߣÊÓƵ understands.
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University manager numbers rising 'twice as fast as academics'
The percentage increase in the number of managers in higher education in recent years is more than twice that for academics, an analysis of new figures has suggested. Data released by the Higher...
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Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate
Mary Warnock navigates the moral questions that come to bear on the having of children
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Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor
Sketches of a street where Boz grew up - and a place that scarred him - captivate Valerie Sanders
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The Russian Origins of the First World War
Who was responsible for the First World War? That Germany was largely to blame has become the established view, but Sean McMeekin points his finger at a different culprit, Russia. His thesis is...
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Banding Together: How Communities Create Genres in Popular Music
Jennifer Lena attempts to take on two of popular music's most regularly debated areas and get to the heart of the problems in previous scholarship. Given that academics working in different areas of...
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The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning
Eva Aldea is intrigued by an account of our enduring fascination with barbarous images
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The Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800
William Monter's subject is female kings: a contradiction in terms, one might think. But as he points out, the word "queen", from the Anglo-Saxon cwén, in origin means a king's wife, not a female...
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Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human: Past, Present and Future
As its title indicates, this book is an attempt to unravel what it means to be human in the past, present and future. Its ambition is to provide "a comprehensive set of historical, philosophical and...
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African leader wants end to 'slave trade' in education
Head of universities group criticises self-interest of 'globalising' institutions. Phil Baty writes