Moocs: edX unveils Arab initiative, Udacity rethinks ‘lousy product’
Harvard/MIT platform sees ‘huge demand’ as rival shifts approach
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Westminster programme integrates arts and science
Student collaboration blends skills to take fresh look at knowledge
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Helix Centre: designs for lifesaving
Royal College of Art and Imperial partner in ‘high-impact’ hub
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Hungarian sector limps along as youth still vote with their feet
‘Student contract’ fails to forestall exodus as academy reels from massive cuts
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State interventionism
The coverage of the Robbins report’s 50th anniversary was a reminder of the way higher education shapes and is shaped by government policy. Robbins established that for the UK, the extent of...
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US alternative to student loans polarises debate
Liberals and conservatives argue over merits of intergenerational Pay It Forward plan
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JANET set to feed data-hungry sector
Jisc’s super-fast network arrives ‘on time and on budget’
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An exciting contest
Felipe Fernández-Armesto judges a revealing after-dinner game
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Our ‘world-class’ status may be greatly exaggerated
Bahram Bekhradnia warns of the clear and present dangers facing the UK academy
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Q&A with Sir Paul Nurse
We speak to the Royal Society president and director of the Francis Crick Institute. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Distant Love, by Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Les Gofton on ‘world families’ and globalisation
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Must academics researching authoritarian regimes self-censor?
In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark
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Shakespeare by numbers: my quest to see every single play
Emma Rees is 34 down, four to go in a bid to see the Bard’s entire canon on stage
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David Eastwood, John Gilbey, Liz Gloyn, Roger Luckhurst and Judie Newman...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Dynamics of Disaster, by Susan W. Kieffer
Alison Stokes on natural catastrophes and the need to use collective wisdom to cope with them