Film review: Cedar Rapids
Duncan Wu detects smug bigotry in the sourly 'comic' tale of a middle-aged naif's business trip
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TV review: The Great Estate: The Rise and Fall of the Council House
As the council house dream falls into disrepair, Gary Day sees a spirit of frugality and thrift rekindled
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Campus round-up
Newcastle UniversityBabies of obese at more riskWomen who are obese during early pregnancy are at increased risk of their baby dying, according to researchers. Scientists at Newcastle University...
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Odds and quads
Clement Attlee (1883-1967) served as deputy prime minister in Winston Churchill's wartime coalition government before going on to win a spectacular victory in the general election of 1945.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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21 April 2011
Our better half - Does the bonobo’s peaceable nature disprove the ‘killer-ape’ theory of humanity?
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Swansea’s sacrificial plan: take pay cuts to avoid redundancies
Swansea University wants staff to take pay cuts of between 3 and 4 per cent in exchange for a “no redundancies” deal.
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Almost all universities submit access agreements to Offa
The vast majority of English universities - if not all - are planning to charge tuition fees above the lower threshold of £6,000, information released by the Office for Fair Access reveals.
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Wellings to leave UK for ߣߣƵn post
Paul Wellings, the vice-chancellor of Lancaster University and chair of the 1994 Group, is leaving the UK to take the helm of an ߣߣƵn university.
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Tara Brabazon: digital stairways need wheelchair ramps, too
Since 1994, I have delivered a Monday morning lecture at 8.30, 9.00 or 9.30am. One of the consequences of teaching first-year students is that academic timetables are skewed earlier in the week to...
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Offa deadline triggers a volley of fee declarations
A flurry of tuition fee announcements have been made as the deadline approaches for universities to submit draft access agreements to the Office for Fair Access.
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Inside Higher Ed: Presidential doppelgängers tweet
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
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#comedinewithTHE competition
ߣߣƵ is giving away the prize of a lifetime. But not for this competition. No, the winner of this competition will see themselves (and a friend/acquaintance of their choice) whisked...
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Harper Adams plans to charge £9k fees
The UK’s leading farming college has joined the growing group of institutions that plan to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a year in 2012.
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ߣߣƵ’s watchdog warns of US-style ‘long tail’ of bad institutions
The US higher education system is blighted by a “very long tail of really bad institutions that are taking people’s money for degrees that don’t give any advantage at all to students”, according to...