Rising costs set to change the face of US higher education
As funding for public universities falls, poorer students will feel the pinch. John Gill reports
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Starry, starry results
One in 12 of all A-level examinations sat this year were awarded the new A* grade as the overall pass rate rose for the 28th year in a row. As clearing opened this morning, the Universities and...
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Envisioning Future Academic Library Services: Initiatives, Ideas and Challenges
Covering a broad range of topics, this edited volume will appeal to information professionals who are interested in the future direction, challenges and opportunities for library and information...
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? = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studio Paintings: Work Place/Domestic SpaceBy Kirstin Ringelberg, associate professor of art history, Elon...
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Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster
Mary Evans on the politics of corporate crime and its social costs for the poor in the global South
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Belonging in an Adopted World: Race, Identity, and Transnational Adoption
We became the proud owners of a new dog a few weeks ago - a gorgeous golden retriever puppy with huge paws and a voracious appetite for shoes. Although he's our dog, I certainly didn't give birth to...
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The Canon: The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois
"The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line." Few sentences have proven as prophetic as this one, taken from the first paragraph of W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk...
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Book of the Week: The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour
Prince of Darkness or bringer of the light of modernisation? Vernon Bogdanor on Labour's chiaroscuro genius
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Decisions, decisions
Too many cheeses can drive society crackers. Slovenian scholar Renata Salecl tells Matthew Reisz about the paralysing effects of the Western ideology du jour: the 'tyranny of choice'
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The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
Tim Birkhead appreciates a great science writer's somewhat erratic tour of avian fidelity and infidelity
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Pope and Devil: the Vatican's Archives and the Third Reich
The Vatican's dealings with Nazi Germany have been a major source of controversy for decades. From the first staging of Rolf Hochhuth's play, The Representative, in 1963 to the publication in 1999 of...
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The heat is on to turn down that dial
Universities are offering students incentives to cut their energy consumption. Nicholas Chan reports
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Odds and quads
Pillar Man, a bronze sculpture by the Norwegian artist Nicolaus Widerberg, is set against a wall of Northumbria University's gallery in Newcastle.It stands 6.5m tall and emerges from a stone "river...
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Scots band together over commitment to research
Research is costly, but Scotland is against creating teaching-only institutions, writes Hannah Fearn
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THE World University Rankings
More than two months ago, we published the first draft of our planned new methodology for the 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings.The draft, detailing how we will draw together 13...