Between kids and classes, study can be a real squeeze
Student parents cite financial aid, childcare and isolation as problems. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Chance to help poorest may be lost, Scots told
Scottish universities will miss out on a golden opportunity to improve their performance in widening participation because of a "cap" on student numbers.Addressing the "Funding, Fairness and...
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News in brief
Business collaborationsJoint benefits explainedA new study will aim to develop a "deeper understanding" of why companies collaborate with universities. Sponsored by the research councils, the Council...
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Open access will get another look
Research councils to revisit issue after study shows policies having little impact. Zoe Corbyn writes
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Daytime TV: England at a canter
Elements of the national character are revealed to Gary Day through Hartlepool, horses and honeybees
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Using mobile phones while driving - a timely reminder
Many readers will have seen the recent press coverage surrounding an individual who was jailed for sending texts while driving before a fatal crash occurred. The individual received a custodial...
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Top research fronts in the social sciences
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 2003-2008
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Waterboarding allegations denied
Claims that a Poppleton University lecturer was subjected to "waterboarding" after his recent submission to the Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee inquiry into higher education...
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Dangerous liaisons
Student-scholar trysts are perilous affairs, writes Sally Feldman
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: Now you see it, now you don't
Science and universities are vital to economic recovery, but the Chancellor offered them only budgetary sleight of hand
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From where I sit - The hogwash manifesto
No election in India was ever lost for want of a manifesto. In fact, as a friend put it, many thinking Indians treat manifestos as "hogwash - the wash within which the political hogs bathe themselves...
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John Harper, 1925-2009
John Lander Harper, one of the leading ecologists of the 20th century, has died.He was born on May 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He studied for a first degree in botany at the...
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Private provision is a bankrupt approach 1
You report a suggestion by Policy Exchange that private, presumably "for profit", providers might take over all or parts of failing universities ("Bankruptcy should be a real option, argues think-...
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Private provision is a bankrupt approach 2
In 1981, for the first time in its history, the University Grants Committee decided that financial cuts should not create "equal misery", but be differentially directed. The major cuts - much greater...