Hefce’s days numbered if Lib Dems triumph
Manifesto targets ‘wasteful quango’ for the chop, announces phased abolition of tuition fees and promises end to 50 per cent participation target. Melanie Newman reports
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The Devil’s Dictionary
Feeling lost, angry, disenfranchised? Confused by the jargon overwhelming the academy? Philip Davies offers a handy print-out-and-keep guide to the evils of ‘edu-speak’
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Tories promise more university places and more freedom
Conservative Party’s 2010 general election manifesto also pledges to delay the REF and to consider the Browne review ‘carefully’
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British endowment slump outstrips US percentage losses
Income rise from all other sources overtaken by higher expenditure. Melanie Newman reports
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The part-time manifesto
Labour reaffirms STEM commitment but abandons 50 per cent participation in favour of 75 per cent objective via foundation degrees, apprenticeships and technical training. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Crumbs of comfort in a harsh climate
Average pay rise of 1.2% for US academics belies ‘continuing disinvestment’ in staff, says AAUP report. John Morgan writes
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Moody’s says relax
Credit ratings agency rejects talk of crisis in the academy and predicts resilience in the face of funding cuts. Melanie Newman reports
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Former ‘Billy no mates’ has his chance to shine
Twelve regional finalists compete to be International Student of the Year. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Book of the week: The Marketplace of Ideas
Are US universities as good as they seem? Simon Baatz lauds an insightful analysis of their pros and cons
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Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment
Gerald Pillay applauds an argument against the increasing commercialisation of higher education
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Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places
Like the cops who chase the gangsters across New York in the 1948 film noir Naked City, Sharon Zukin travels from district to district, describing "How Brooklyn became cool", "Why Harlem is not a...
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The Canon: Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. By Elinor Ostrom
It is more than 20 years since the United Nations' Brundtland Commission made the optimistic claim that "humanity has the ability to make development sustainable", and it has to be said that, at the...
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Turning the Tune: Traditional Music, Tourism, and Social Change in an Irish Village
Jeremy MacClancy is impressed by a study of the way performance can unite disparate groups
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From Faith to Fun: The Secularisation of Humour
Faith and fun would not seem to share much. Faith suggests seriousness, fun lightheartedness. Faith seems to fit the tragic more than the comic. The exemplar of the opposition between faith and fun...
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The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England
In this timely, well-written study, Sarah Gwyneth Ross charts the rise of secular, learned women in intellectual society in Italy and England from 1400 to 1680. She considers commonalities in "the...