Cable admits AAB will save government money
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has admitted that the government will spend less on higher education as a result of this year's shortfall in student numbers, caused partly by the government's...
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Bath leaves 1994 Group
The University of Bath has left the 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities with its vice-chancellor saying continued membership of the organisation "does not reflect the type of...
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Cranfield v-c to take on BIS role
The vice-chancellor of Cranfield University, Sir John O'Reilly, will become director general of knowledge and innovation at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from early February next...
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Academics put to the test by Bamber
A panel of academics chaired by former University Challenge quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne faced a barrage of questions from the public ranging from "Why does it matter how it all began?" and "Does the...
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Surrey announces plans for new vet school
The first new vet school south of London is to be constructed around the theme that human and animal health is intrinsically linked.
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Russell Group members 'could lose £80 million' over student shortfall
Undergraduate numbers have dropped at around a third of the institutions in the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, its director general has said.
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The Dracula Dilemma: Tourism, Identity and the State in Romania
How to establish a serious national tourist agenda when the most famous person associated with your country is not only someone you'd rather not be associated with but furthermore is fictional?...
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The Making of Modern Liberalism
A glance at this book's index is enough to confirm that Alan Ryan's approach to this vast subject is essentially philosophical. The reader seeking historical information, say, on the contribution to...
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Moscow 1937
Polly Jones praises an intentionally disorientating evocation of a capital gripped by state terror
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Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
Vernon Bogdanor doffs his cap to a monument of objective, disinterested historical scholarship
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Against Fairness
Against Fairness is presented as a cheerful, chatty look at contemporary ethics. The intimation is that the author is going to defend dreadful vices in the manner of an agent provocateur ("Bias,...
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Stewart Parker: A Life
Playwright Stewart Parker was born in October 1941, some months after the Belfast Blitz, and wrote that he carried pre-natal memories of that event. He speculated over whether memory begins in the...
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The God Problem: Expressing Faith and Being Reasonable
Do religious adherents need sociology's help to defend themselves? Steve Fuller has his doubts
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Title fight: Ireland's institutes make their nominative case
Universities object as technology colleges align to bid for a status upgrade. Jon Marcus reports
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Pharmacy recruitment may be unhealthy in high doses
Lack of enrolment caps could leave many out of work, warns student group. Elizabeth Gibney writes