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While I support the general drift of your editorial "Give them incentives to improve" (14 July), I observe that the word "teach" and derivatives of it appear 13 times and "learning" three.The two are...
While I support the general drift of your editorial "Give them incentives to improve" (14 July), I observe that the word "teach" and derivatives of it appear 13 times and "learning" three.The two are...

A handsome terrier lightens the load for a formidable trio grappling with life's mysteries, finds Duncan Wu

'Know thyself', says Gary Day, of an examination of Delphi, and finds that applies equally to old rockers

Zbynek Zeman was a Czech scholar who "became very English" without ever forgetting his European roots, and who retained a lifelong passion for communicating the history of central Europe to an...

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University of SheffieldEngineering expansionPlans for a £20 million new engineering graduate school have been unveiled. The undertaking is the first stage in a major project to remodel and refurbish...

During the past Ice Age, this large sabre-toothed cat (Smilodon californicus) ventured into the La Brea pits near Los Angeles, where tar still bubbles to the surface from underground hydro-carbon...
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Distance learning specialist the Open University will undercut every higher education institution in England in 2012 by charging fees of £5,000 a year for degrees from September 2012, it has been...
A committee of MPs has criticised the way in which the government cut the Education Maintenance Allowance, which supported poor 16-19 year olds in education.
The higher education sector in the UK is undergoing “a strategic shift” in the way it thinks about internationalisation, according to a report published today.

By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed

The son of Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour has been jailed for 16 months for a rampage at a student fees protest.
Around two-thirds of graduates finishing university last year found jobs within six months of leaving, a slight improvement on the year before.