Union leader fires broadside over higher education cuts
The government is ignoring the “lessons of history” by planning huge cuts to the higher education budget, the leader of the UK’s main lecturers’ union will warn today.
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Turn university careers services into recruitment consultants, urges think-tank
A think-tank has called for an overhaul of university careers services
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A false economy? Canada counts costs of downsizing decade
A cap on hiring full-time staff is now taking its toll on institutions and students. Sarah Cunnane writes
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Willetts: end in sight for fees uncertainty
Charges for university tuition should be increased to sustain investment in higher education and could be announced by next summer, David Willetts said today.
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Book of the Week: Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Katharine Reeve is gripped by a chapter-and-verse account of the industry at the heart of intellectual culture
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Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America
Joyce Shaw Peterson applauds a sensitive study into the ever-changing ideology of maternalism
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In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World
In 2007, researchers at London's Natural History Museum went into their archives to see if anything in their holdings would be relevant to projects commemorating the 200th anniversary of the...
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The Canon: The Hidden Injuries of Class by Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb
In the early 1970s, I spent some time trying to persuade low-income working-class families in a small Yorkshire town to claim the recently introduced rent benefits.Perhaps it's not surprising that a...
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Toward a Rhetoric of Insult
Well, that's rude! Yes, but Peter J. Smith seeks more insight into the use of invective throughout history
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Knowledge Power: Interdisciplinary Education for a Complex World
In 2008 Cisco, one of the world's biggest technology corporations, commissioned from Metiri, an educational consulting firm specialising in educational technology policy, a "white paper on equipping...
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Drawing the Map of Life: Inside the Human Genome Project
Ten years ago the first rough draft of the human genome sequence was announced in a millennial media show that linked President Bill Clinton in the White House with Prime Minister Tony Blair in...
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Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus rex
David Norman enjoyed an insightful tribute to a fossil hunter, but feels the public may not concur
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The Meaning of Cooking
Jean-Claude Kaufmann, a sociologist at the Sorbonne, is a prolific writer; he has published at least 10 books in French (it's hard to keep count) since 2001 alone. A few of them have recently...
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(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Pictures for Use and Pleasure: Vernacular Painting in High Qing ChinaBy James Cahill, professor emeritus of Chinese art, University of California, Berkeley....
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University of St Andrews - Bee here now
Honeybees are being provided with a new home in the grounds of Scotland's oldest university in an attempt to preserve the threatened species. The University of St Andrews has worked with the Fife...