The ancient students of Greece…and we are not talking Plato
Ten years of study with no sign of a degree points to an academy in crisis. Matthew Reisz reports
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The sum of our ‘worst fears’: UUK chief says prepare for cuts of £4.2bn
The president of Universities UK has told vice-chancellors to expect cuts of £4.2 billion in the government’s spending review – and warned that a huge funding gap is a “terrible danger”.
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Poor students to benefit from Clegg’s £7bn ‘fairness premium’
Students from poor backgrounds will receive help to attend university as part of a wider £7 billion “fairness premium” announced today by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister.
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England before Elizabeth
Hester Vaizey hails a vivid portrayal of the queens who thwarted the constraints on their sex
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The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World without Ice Caps
A chilling look at our possible destiny indicates the limits of human adaptability, says Barry Brook
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Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture
Few moments in 20th-century American popular music have been quite so maligned as the disco years. They are inevitably characterised as a tasteless age defined by testosterone-charged men strutting...
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The Canon: How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War, 1938-1939 by Donald Cameron Watt
My relationship with How War Came began in 1989. I was a wide-eyed history postgraduate at the University of Toronto. I enrolled in a course on the causes of the Second World War and our tutor told...
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Derrida: Profanations
Robert Eaglestone applauds an important but rather obscure interpretation of Derrida's work
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How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog
If you have spent your life wondering how to understand one of the most counter-intuitive branches of science without going near the heavy mathematics, then this book may be for you. Armed with an...
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Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market
This is a long-overdue comprehensive analysis of the work of institutional economist and political commentator, Karl Polanyi. Gareth Dale's book strikes a helpful balance between, on the one hand, a...
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Field rankings for Russia
FIELD RANKINGS FOR RUSSIA Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-June 2010 Field Papers CitationsCitations per paperWorld average % +/–...
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Blogconfidential: Room 101 here we come
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Room 101 here we come
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Appointments
Robert Gordon UniversityFerdinand von ProndzynskiScotland is to get its first tweeting vice-chancellor with the appointment of Ferdinand von Prondzynski (@vonprond) at Robert Gordon University. The...
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ifs School of Finance - Banking on it
One of the few private providers in the UK to possess taught degree-awarding powers has launched its first full-time undergraduate programme. The BSc (Hons) in banking practice and management at the...
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University of East Anglia - Improving read
In an initiative to bridge cultural differences on campus, first-year students have been given a free copy of a novel previously shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. More than 5,000 copies of In the...