Revamped US research PhD rankings cause bewilderment
A long-awaited analysis of the state of US research programmes has resulted in controversy after it arrived three years late and produced a novel form of ranking.
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Little substance behind Scots’ complaints
Dozens of complaints were lodged against universities with the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman last year but few were upheld, a new report reveals.
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Fees must rocket to cover teaching funding cuts, says UUK head
Tuition fees may need to rise to more than £7,000 a year to compensate universities for the cuts in teaching funding being considered by the coalition government, the president of Universities UK has...
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Labour accuses coalition of ‘pulling up the drawbridge’ on the next generation
The coalition government has been criticised by Labour’s shadow business secretary for attacking its goal of widening participation in higher education.
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Inside Higher Ed: Israel, South Africa and academic boycotts
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Great versus Good: scholar vindicated in banishment battle
Botswana’s expulsion of academic flouted African Charter, says ruling. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Is the Pope a Catholic?
In the wake of Benedict XVI’s British visit, Robert Segal deconstructs the Pope’s protestations about the potency of religion
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Book of the Week: A Journey
Five wars, three terms, one unpalatable truth: Alex Danchev interrogates the great persuader's mock-demotic attempts to defend the indefensible
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Thoughtful Gardening: Great Plants, Great Gardens, Great Gardeners
Timothy Mowl appreciates an erudite tour of the nursery end, courtesy of a bawdy, un-PC wit
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A Chance for European Universities, Or: Avoiding the Looming University Crisis in Europe
Following hard on the heels of his influential work A Chance for the World Bank (2005), this book places Jo Ritzen at the forefront of the debate on public finance within a global context. Currently...
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The Canon: Agape and Eros by Anders Nygren
Agape and Eros was written in the 1930s, just as philosophers were beginning to realise that language doesn't fit transparently over reality, but alters the way reality is conceived. Swedish...
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Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions
Eric Herring weighs the human cost of the West's 13-year campaign to undermine Saddam Hussein
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Big History and the Future of Humanity
Narratives don't come much grander than the current scientific view of the history of the Universe - a 14 billion-year saga so far, with many billions more to come. Against that backdrop, the...
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Gender Inclusive Engineering Education
This book has an interesting title: the words "gender" and "inclusive", coupled with engineering and education, reflect a "no mean feat" challenge in attempting even to think, let alone write, about...
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BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Forest Wildlife Ecology and Habitat ManagementBy David R. Patton, emeritus professor of forest wildlife ecology, Northern Arizona University. CRC Press, £57.99. ISBN...