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By limiting its scope and eschewing academic departments, a campus in Latin America has left room for tradition and transformation, says Klaus Capelle

By limiting its scope and eschewing academic departments, a campus in Latin America has left room for tradition and transformation, says Klaus Capelle

Students are dangerously unclear on the value of their high-ticket education, says David Palfreyman. We urgently need ācontracts to educateā

Most academics are not naturally angry people. We live in a world where statements are made only after careful hypothesis testing, where data are analysed meticulously, where conclusions report what...
Professor Barbara Taylor recalls that the late Raphael Samuel was āimpatient with the way history was taught at Oxford, where the syllabus included little about working peopleā (āDeath of radical...
David Toop surely could try harder in struggling to think about fiction about music or musicians that doesnāt ring false (āBooks interview: David Toopā, Books, 23 June). There is a whole tradition of...

Academics split over importance of research impact

Post-Brexit years will be full of uncertainty that will take its toll on the sector even if worst-case scenarios donāt come to pass

Author makes the case for universities to be open to eccentrics and those whose views we abhor

Too often universities are not speaking early enough with private accommodation providers on what types of provision are needed, a conference hears

A leading authority on genetics and genetics education has died

UCL event considers the responses of anthropologists and artists to the refugee crisis

Chief executive of FE provider NCG said motivation for getting degree-awarding powers was ātaking controlā of its own HE provision