The glitter meets the grim reality
A football project is inspiring homeless men to improve their health. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Grandes écoles, grand designs: France told to think global
Clea Caulcutt on elite group chief's contentious plans to attract high-fee-paying foreign students
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL• Award winner: Steven Hooper• Institution: University of East Anglia• Value: £644,933Fijian art: political power, sacred value, social transformation and...
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Producers, not consumers
Peter Geoghegan lauds an HEA-funded project that aims to correct the commodification of the academic experience
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Égalité and higher fees: French lessons for the English revolution
Sciences Po shows that massive tuition-fee rises can be used to underwrite efforts to widen participation, Peter Gumbel writes
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Star signs and bad omens
Our willingness to end funding for 2* work bodes ill for the future of research at elites and new universities alike, says Michael Rayner
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Unexpurgated version
Debowdlerising a text to reveal the writer's 'original' intentions is not as simple as it might seem, Josephine Guy argues
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Diary
ManchesterThe 21st Century Library: A Physical or Virtual Place?If books are on the way out, do we still need libraries as key physical landmarks within our cities and learning communities? Although...
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Saving our bacon
In a move that Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, described as "profoundly logical", the Department of Social Sciences at our university will soon be merged with the Department...
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We expected much more
David Willetts, advocate for the arts? Nothing like it, accuses Sally Feldman
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Leader: Wise up to the modern world
To succeed in the 21st century, graduates will need much more than a narrow range of skills offered by an outdated academy
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Research intelligence - Let's dig a little deeper
Humanities set to benefit from second round of international digitisation project. Hannah Fearn reports
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Mission creep as US spends, spends, spends on the extras
Study rejects claim that sector allocates more to education than it receives in fees. Jon Marcus writes
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The week in higher education
A claim that 36,000 student places could be chopped to allow for the additional cost of subsidising tuition fee loans in 2012 prompted a rash of stories about policy chaos on 20 April. Ed Miliband,...
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From where I sit - High scores in the wrong game
Does the world revolve around world university rankings?I asked myself this question recently when I attended a national seminar on higher education in Serbia. One of the university rectors told me...