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A matter of life or death
As a cancer survivor, Sally Feldman has been a research object and participant
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17 November 2011
Plum role - Leader, researcher, teacher, mentor: professor, who do you think you are?
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After 12 years, University of West London removed from ‘at risk’ list
A university that has been on the funding council’s “at risk” list for 12 years – longer than any other in England – has been removed from the register.
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Inside Higher Ed: Dropping F-bombs
By Elizabeth Murphy, for Inside Higher Ed
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FE colleges lead scramble for 20,000 biddable places
Five times as many further education colleges as universities have bid for places under the government’s cut-price student numbers margin in 2012-13.
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For students, fee waivers ‘make no sense whatsoever’
Tuition fee waivers should be scrapped in favour of bursaries, according to a former president of the National Union of Students.
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Europe still the top destination for US students
The UK remains the top destination for students from the US looking to study abroad.
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Disquiet over plans for Portsmouth’s School of Art
A Turner Prize-winning artist has criticised a decision by a university art school to concentrate more on digital-based courses in a restructure that threatens around a dozen jobs.
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AHRC appoints new director of research
A professor of English studies at the University of Strathclyde has been named as the new director of research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Universities wary of European threat to autonomy, Lords inquiry hears
Universities in the UK should be wary of any attempts by the European Commission to take greater control of higher education policy as it could present a threat to institutional autonomy, a vice-...
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The Body Politic: The Battle over Science in America
This punchy work helps to address the denial of scientific knowledge in the US, says James Wilsdon
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The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George
An exposition of fraternal ties sheds new light on the life of the 'Cockney Poet', finds Christoph Bode
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Love in the Time of Communism: Intimacy and Sexuality in the GDR
Generalisations about the other part of the country were always rife both in West Germany and in the East. Popular Western assumptions included the observation that communist political oppression...
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American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
In American Oracle, David Blight uses the sesquicentenary of the American Civil War and the juxtaposition of that war's centenary with contemporaneous civil rights struggles in a bid to reopen the...