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Out of the shadows
W.G. Sebald, stifled by the culture of silence in post-war Germany, by ‘people’s ability to forget what they do not want to know’, settled in 1960s England and wrote groundbreaking literary works to...
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22 September 2011
High anxiety - Tense about the new term? You’re not alone
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Data be damned: REF's blueprint for systemic intellectual corruption
The abandonment of metrics will leave the assessment exercise exposed to sheer subjectivity and bias, warns Andrew Oswald
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Sage fright
Excitement, anxiety, shaking in your boots. Academics experience mixed feelings as term starts, says Jon Marcus
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Can we ever know the truth about the Armenian 'genocide'?
Debate has been further inflamed by claims that Turkey has paid off historians. Jack Grove reports
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Universities cheered by Scottish spending review, but colleges face pain
The Scottish government has pledged to increase funding for universities in a spending review that sets the budget for the next three years.
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Clegg: ‘Breaking promise on fees was heart-wrenching’
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has described the coalition government’s decision to increase university tuition fees – which went against pledges he made before the election – as “heart-wrenching”...
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Trial of Italian seismologists ‘misguided’, experts warn
A decision to charge a group of Italian seismologists and officials with manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake that killed over 300 people “defies belief”, according to a UK expert in the...
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‘Show students the data – or others will do it for you’, Willetts warns
Students should be able to view simple pie-charts showing how their university spends its tuition fee income, David Willetts has said.
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Doubts raised about PQA and AAB proposals as sector responds to White Paper
Plans for students to apply to university after receiving their A-level results have been challenged as the consultation on the higher education White Paper draws to a close.
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‘Oxbridge obsession’ blamed for holding back social mobility agenda
A “narrow, Oxbridge-obsessed” approach to higher education reform will thwart attempts to increase social mobility, according to a new report by a group of new universities.
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Lib Dems vote for rethink on loan repayments by part-time students
Delegates at the Liberal Democrat party conference have supported a motion asking the government to look again at its proposals for the tuition fee loans given to part-time students.
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Inside Higher Ed: Abuse of trust?
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
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International students ‘do not use Facebook to choose their university’
Only 4 per cent of international students use social media to select a foreign university, according to a worldwide survey of undergraduates.