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OERs are touted as the answer to all manner of global ills, but much work is needed before they fulfil the promise, writes Jeremy Knox
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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'Copy BT model' for privatisation
Telecoms monopoly break-up offers lessons for higher education, says college. John Morgan writes
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Oxford admissions rouse passion as two tribes war over 'unfairness'
Privilege and discrimination: what better topics for a frenzied debate? John Morgan listened in
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Students fight EU loan plan
Guarantee scheme will aid banks, not us, insists European Student Union. Matthew Reisz reports
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Red Velvet
The story of a black actor on the Victorian stage raises questions about race and racism in today's theatre, argues Peter J.Smith
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Presidential candidates shift towards the middle ground
Romney's and Obama's positions on education converge as election nears. Jon Marcus writes
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The week in higher education
• While the furore over Jimmy Savile continues to rage at the BBC, The Guardian's Hugh Muir questioned why St Mary's University College, Twickenham has "not seen fit" to remove the priest Laurence...
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Leader: Universal lesson to be learned
In the high fees era, debates about teaching qualifications will be just as pointed in the lecture hall as in the classroom
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From Where I Sit - Bologna tasters enter US menus
"What do US higher education people think about the Bologna Process?" a university rector asked me at last month's Eurasian Higher Education Leaders' Forum in Astana, Kazakhstan. Resisting the urge...
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Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine
It’s not too early to tell who is to blame for the unnecessary death of millions, says Kerry Brown
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Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease
Alison Bashford applauds a magisterial study of scarily relevant bioeconomic history
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Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956
A doorstop of a book from Allen Lane can be a daunting prospect. But, having read Anne Applebaum’s prizewinning Gulag: A History of the Soviet Camps (2003), I knew that appearances can be deceptive....
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Steep: The Precipitous Rise of the Tea Party
Since the 2008 election of Democrat Barack Obama, the US’ first black president, a movement known as the Tea Party has emerged within the Republican Party. Here, Lawrence Rosenthal and Christine...
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The Invention of Heterosexual Culture
The man-woman pairing displaced other well-established forms of bonding, finds Robert Mills