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Why are there no natural science books among "The Canon"?Martin Luck, Associate professor of biosciences, University of Nottingham.
Why are there no natural science books among "The Canon"?Martin Luck, Associate professor of biosciences, University of Nottingham.
Sally Hunt's article "Divided we fall" (7 October) fails to recognise that the proposed changes to the Universities Superannuation Scheme are the minimum required to ensure that an affordable,...

Market weights and measures - Lord Browne’s judgement: let supply and demand shape the sector
Reactions to Lord Browne’s review of higher education funding and student finance are flooding in. Here we round up what different groups have been saying
Alasdair Smith sees the Browne review as a golden opportunity to halt the academy’s distorted focus on research output

The Liberal Democrat policy of opposing tuition fees is “simply no longer feasible” in the current economic climate, Vince Cable said today in a statement to the House of Commons.

The tuition fee cap should be scrapped, “blanket subsidies” for courses ended and universities freed to compete for students in one of the most radical overhauls of the sector ever.
Alan Ryan proposes that there should be no cap on tuition fees, grants for the talented poor should return and universities should lose their safety net
Recent studies reveal tuition costs do not deter students from lower socio-economic groups. Their decision not to go into higher education, argues Peter Urwin, is made much earlier in their schooling
Are academics being blamed for work-shy students and high unemployment? Jon Marcus reports

An investigation into senior staff at London Metropolitan University has concluded that there is no case for disciplinary action following the financial crisis that engulfed the institution.

There is “no evidence” that a Nigerian graduate accused of attempting to blow up a plane on Christmas Day last year was radicalised while studying at University College London, an independent review...

From scrolls to iPads, literature may change its form but its importance endures, says Tara Brabazon

An insightful analysis evinces the relevance of a Victorian conflict to today's ills, writes A.W. Purdue

Does language mirror the objects and structures inscribed in reality, or is it rather that reality is reified, structured and even invented by language? Is what we assume to be naturally and...