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Since 2008, taxpayers burdened by debt that they did not create have learned that the global market economy is not rational. The mechanics of credit derivatives remain incomprehensible to most of us...
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A Most Dangerous Book: Tacitus's Germania from the Roman Empire to the Third Reich
In 1954, less than a decade after the fall of the Third Reich, the great Italian-Jewish historian Arnaldo Momigliano told an important international classical congress that Cornelius Tacitus' brief...
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News in Brief
United StatesBuilding bridges across the worldNew York has hosted a conference of the International Association of University Presidents, where university leaders from more than 80 nations discussed...
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Sowing seeds of freedom in the 'Arab Spring'
Scheme aims to bring 100 PhD students to UK to influence region's leadership. Paul Jump writes
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An academy that boldly goes where leaders fear to tread
University of the West Indies' head says it must lead by example to tackle social ills. John Morgan reports
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The quality code: QAA discloses 'toolkit' rejig
Standards overhaul suggests a move from guidance to obligation. Simon Baker reports
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News in brief
Widening participationRetiring v-c: elite still failing poorNew universities are still key to widening participation and elite institutions are falling short in this regard, according to an outgoing...
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Free app has the cite stuff for REF
LSE professor favours Publish or Perish over peer review for evaluation exercise. Paul Jump reports
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Do the rights thing
Don't be put off by the Commission on a Bill of Rights, say Colin Harvey and Colm O'Cinneide - we must engage with it
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White Paper: disquiet as sector-wide vision turns into 'numbers control'
Experts fear race to the bottom and a squeezed middle. John Morgan and Simon Baker report
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White Paper: more power for Hefce to tackle failings
Overhaul will turn funding council from grant-giving quango into 'classic regulator', writes Simon Baker
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'Well-regarded' providers in line for less frequent, light-touch inspections
The inspection of universities by the standards watchdog should move towards a "risk-based" approach that reduces red tape for "well-regarded" institutions, the government's White Paper on higher...
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White Paper: small colleges to get a shot at title
White Paper seeks to ease restrictions on what can be called a 'university'. Simon Baker reports
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UCU joins strike action over pension threats
The University and College Union is set to link up with public sector unions in a national strike over pensions - but one vice-chancellor expects to count the number of strikers "on one hand".
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Trial by fire will prove our mettle, insist v-cs
Majority expect to emerge stronger, but a short tail fear reforms' negative impact, writes Simon Baker