Low-income families half as likely to see children reach university
Teenagers from poor families are half as likely to progress to higher education as those from richer ones, a new report shows.
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Hefce surveys postgrads amid 'crisis' talk
England's funding council has commissioned educational research company i-graduate to research the information needs of taught postgraduates, who now make up around one fifth of all UK students.
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Commission raises spectre of higher fees’ deterrent effect
About 15,000 young people may have been deterred from applying to university by the trebling of tuition fees, an independent taskforce has said.
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MP3: The Meaning of a Format
Sound compression and mobile audio storage are changing how we listen, finds Hillegonda Rietveld
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Rome: An Empire's Story
An illuminating guide maps out a fast-track course to a dazzling imperial overview for Ronald Mellor
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Hollywood 1938: Motion Pictures' Greatest Year
Superlatives are immediately suspect, and "greatest" more than most, so the subtitle of Catherine Jurca's book is likely to arouse critical misgivings. But it is soon apparent that the phrase doesn't...
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The Woman Reader
This ambitious book maps out the relatively undeveloped field of women's reading habits across time and cultures, all in fewer than 350 pages. It is not an easy task, but Belinda Jack accomplishes it...
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Sinners? Scroungers? Saints? Unmarried Motherhood in Twentieth-Century England
The absence of the didactic from this study of lone parents makes it all the stronger, says Mary Evans
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Bioethics: All that Matters
The title of this book implies that it will provide an introduction to "all that matters" in bioethics, but anyone who buys it believing that it offers an overview of the modern discipline will be...
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Shakespeare's Shrine: The Bard's Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon
Earlier this year, Times Higher Education reported on a visit to Japan by Dominic Shellard, who went accompanied by a Shakespeare First Folio. The volume had been borrowed from the British Library at...
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News in brief
United StatesFor-profits lose California goldMost for-profit institutions in California have lost their eligibility for the state's needs-based financial aid programme. In a measure that was expected...
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Close-up on a world with too few sporting chances
Film shows 'wide-eyed' Soas football side meeting Middle Eastern realities. David Matthews reports
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Chile rescinds accreditation of Apollo for-profit
Chile's only university owned by the global arm of US for-profit education giant Apollo Group has had its accreditation withdrawn.On 18 July, following an unsuccessful appeal, Chile's National...
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RsProject Grants• Award winner: Wendy Barclay• Institution: Imperial College London• Value: £397,...