White Paper: reactions round-up
Politicians, vice-chancellors and lobby groups have all given their initial responses to the publication of today’s White Paper on higher education. Here are a selection:
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White Paper: one in four undergraduate places will be up for grabs
A quarter of all student places are to be open to full competition in 2012-13, in a government bid to force higher education institutions to vie for the brightest and best applicants at one end of...
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White Paper: for-profits to benefit from level playing-field
For-profit providers are to be given full access to the student loans system on condition that they agree to follow the same rules on standards, quality and fair access as publicly funded...
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Graduate salaries to rise as competition hots up
The average graduate starting salary is expected to increase for the first time in two years, a report has predicted – but graduates face more competition for jobs.The summer edition of the...
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Higher purpose: new universities still key to social progress as elite fall short, says retiring v-c
The purpose of higher education needs to be more than preparing students for jobs if we are to avoid a future where “people know their place and stay there,” according to an outgoing vice-chancellor....
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Usefulness of rankings outweighs concerns
World university rankings may be 'simplistic' but they offer comparative information that is otherwise unavailable, writes Phil Baty
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AHRC Big Society row deepens as 42 peer reviewers pull out and call for mass resignations
Senior academics have carried out their threat to resign from the Arts and Humanities Research Council's peer review college in a dispute over "Big Society" research – and are now calling on...
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Strikes loom as Middlesex cuts up to 200 jobs
The threat of up to 200 compulsory redundancies at Middlesex University may lead to a ballot for industrial action, a union has warned.Jenny Compton-Bishop, branch secretary of Unison at Middlesex,...
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Sussex v-c to become head of 1994 Group
Michael Farthing, vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex, has been announced as the new chair of the 1994 Group.Professor Farthing will succeed the outgoing chair, Paul Wellings, vice-chancellor...
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Private colleges better value over universities’ ‘ridiculously long vacations’, former minister says
For-profit higher education providers could “really strike a chord” with students worried about the value for money of traditional £9,000-a-year degrees with “ridiculous” long vacations, according to...
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AHRC resignation threats in big row over Big Society
More than 40 senior academics have said they will resign from the Arts and Humanities Research Council's peer review college on June if the council does not take "clear steps" to remove references to...
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An Empire of Ice: Scott, Shackleton, and the Heroic Age of Antarctic Science
Seemingly lunatic exploits by eccentric explorers had a serious purpose, Robert J. Mayhew finds
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Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe
Ronald Hutton welcomes an ambitious study of post-medieval society's leap into the darkness
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Attack of the Difficult Poems: Essays and Inventions
To judge a book by its cover (which is what book covers are for, of course), the reader of this book, given its 3D, blocky, Pop Art-style yellow-on-orange lettering, might expect witty, irreverent...
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Everyday Life in British Government
This is a surprising book. One approaches an analysis of the inner workings of the Civil Service with something approaching trepidation. Of course it's an important topic, but how much will one's...