In the news: Richard Lambert
The future finances of Britain's universities could ultimately lie in the hands of a journalist. In the pre-budget report last week, chancellor Gordon Brown announced that the former editor of the...
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Review to float top-up 'hybrid'
The government's review of higher education looks set to recommend top-up fees repaid by graduates according to earnings. Ministers, who are finalising next month's higher education strategic review...
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Ireland signals return of fees
Tuition fees may return in Ireland after higher education became a casualty of efforts to rein in public spending in this week's budget. Trinity College Dublin imposed an immediate freeze on filling...
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Hefce spending scrutiny sparks run-in with v-cs
The Higher Education Funding Council for England was denounced as "totalitarian" by vice-chancellors this week after it suggested that universities could earn autonomy by demonstrating good...
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Next week
News Down to business: why are graduates unemployable? Features Does TV enhance or diminish history? Universities that cover up the extent of cheating in exams; Is Dubya cleverer than we think? Books...
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Free universities from fund straitjacket, insists CIHE
Higher education institutions should be allowed to set their own tuition fees and be freed from government intervention and the financial "straitjacket of the state", a report backed by Downing...
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Cambridge v-c voices doubts over top-up fees
Cambridge University's new vice-chancellor, Alison Richard, this week defied expectations and sounded a strong note of caution over the introduction of top-up tuition fees. In an interview with The...
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First impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a new translation of the world's earliest novel: "I came to Warley on a wet September morning with the...
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Minds meet on two-way street
Consciousness and the novel
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In the land of the 'blameless' and Ras Tafari
Ethiopia, the Unknown Land
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A trawl of the trenches finds art in artillery
Kleines aus dem Großen Krieg
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More real life than lifestyle
Exotic No More
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Becoming human
The Monkey in the Mirror
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Tea and a constitutional with the founding fathers
America - Liberty, Equality, Power - The American Past - Voices of the American Past, Volumes 1 and 2
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What grey days if Edward had lived
The Tudors