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By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed
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UCU vows to fight government’s ‘ignorance policy’
Union decries coalition’s £1.5bn cuts to universities and £8bn gift to business. Simon Baker reports
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Money down the silo
Universities overlook ways to make savings simply because they do not focus on institution-wide schemes, argues Microsoft’s Ray Fleming
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Chancellor follows v-c out at Gloucestershire
Lord Carey leaves post with ‘great sadness’. Simon Baker reports
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Kingston v-c to step down in December
Sir Peter Scott departs ahead of scheduled retirement to take up post elsewhere, reports Simon Baker
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Degrees and despair: graduates gloomy about jobs
Only a third expect to find work, study finds. Hannah Fearn reports
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UCL provost takes pay cut in face of ‘acute financial pressures’
Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London, responds to the government’s cuts in university budgets with tight housekeeping measures. John Gill reports
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Cable ‘taken aback’ by recent v-c pay rises
Business secretary urges restraint and calls for the sector to halt ‘salary escalation at the top level’. Simon Baker reports
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Book of the week: Living Through the End of Nature: The Future of American Environmentalism
Is the pristine wilderness extinct - or was it only ever a myth? Jules Pretty on the dichotomies of humans and our habitat
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Injustice: Why Social Inequality Persists, by Daniel Dorling
This analysis of elitism is not new, says Fiona Taylor, but neither are the claims made in elitism's favour
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Understanding the International Student Experience
It is rare that international education in the English-speaking countries becomes manifest as the "rich intercultural experience" that marketing brochures like to talk about. A persistent finding in...
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The Canon. The Second World War, Volume VI: Triumph and Tragedy. By Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill famously once said that history would be kind to him because he would write the history. His six-volume work The Second World War is thus portrayed not as his autobiography, but as...
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Bard to the bone
Matthew Reisz talks to Stanley Wells, doyen of Shakespearean editorial scholarship, about his lifetime commitment to the playwright and his new book on romance and the 'beast with two backs'
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Published this week
ARTS AND DESIGN- The Lantern Tower of Westminster Abbey, 1060-2010: Reconstructing its History and ArchitectureBy Warwick Rodwell, visiting professor in the department of archaeology, University of...
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University of Derby - Bandwidth of sisters
Most modern feminists prefer online activism to physical protests, according to research. A survey of 1,265 feminists, carried out by the University of Derby, says that more than twice as many prefer...