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By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
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Poll claims public in favour of cap on foreign students
More than two-thirds of people want to limit the number of foreign students admitted to Britain, an opinion poll has revealed.
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Oxford college devotes full-time post to access
A University of Oxford college has created a full-time academic post dedicated to encouraging bright state-school students to apply to competitive universities.
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Figures reveal huge drop in students starting university
The number of mainstream students set to start higher education courses in England this year is down 62,000, or 17 per cent, on last year's figures, analysis by Times Higher Education suggests.
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Fee cap frozen in Wales for three years
The maximum annual tuition fee for universities in Wales is to be frozen at £9,000 for the next three years, the Welsh Government has announced.
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Private providers among those chosen for London Met students
Three of the 15 institutions initially chosen as potential destinations for London Metropolitan University's overseas students are commercial operators, it has emerged, after a £2 million fund was...
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Ministers want to 'disaggregate' overseas students from net migration
The government has announced that it wants to publish more detailed figures on overseas students that "disaggregate" them from totals on net migration.
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The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Richard Overy discusses the roads to hell that were paved with utopian intentions
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Eve Escapes
Shahidha Bari is touched and troubled by a daughter's efforts to articulate her mother's decline
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Hollywood Cinema and the Real Los Angeles
Hollywood and Los Angeles, you might well think, were made for each other. As early as 1915, with the film industry barely out of its infancy and orange groves still covering most of the rural...
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Fashioning Japanese Subcultures
For readers familiar with Japanese fashion, the eye-catching cover of Yuniya Kawamura's book may signal a link between this work and photographer Shoichi Aoki's long-running FRUiTS project. FRUiTS'...
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The Late Medieval English Church: Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome
Lucy Wooding admires the balance of a tome that puts pre-Reformation England's religion on trial
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Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman
In the study of popular culture, academicians have recently been bringing material from abstract disciplines, such as philosophy, to bear on it. What should we make of this seemingly odd pairing? A...
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The Glorious Art of Peace: From the Iliad to Iraq
In the years after the Second World War, academic centres focused specifically on the study of conflict began to lead the scholarly agenda in that field. King's College London's Department of War...
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News in brief
United StatesCalifornian wrangling endsThe staff of a US university system have approved a new four-year labour contract, ending two years of contentious bargaining with administrative officials....