A vice-chancellor said this week he would rather "leave some courses unviable" than admit under-qualified students. Lowering entry requirements to fill places would be storing trouble, said Philip...
Billed as the greatest-ever international higher education event, the Vatican's "university jubilee" began in Rome this week, the day before the publication of an uncompromising document, under the...
While paying lip-service to anti-elitism, a 'new elite' is cashing in on a population of cultural semi-literates, argues George Walden In education as elsewhere, elites are fast becoming the enemy...
Judith Wester Postgraduate researcher Lancaster University The study of death at an academic level has been taking place for more than 40 years, but is now emerging into a new subject area. Women's...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from an exuberant Australian novel: " If there was a bishop, my mother would have him for tea. " The winner...
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