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Royal InstitutionSir Richard Sykes named chairFormer Imperial College London rector Sir Richard Sykes has been named the new chair of the Royal Institution. Sir Richard, who is also a former chairman...
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Boost emotional skills to help reduce drop-out rates, say academics
Universities urged to develop programmes to help young adults make transition to higher education, writes Melanie Newman
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Mixed reception
The high tuition fees paid by overseas students are an attractive source of revenue in these straitened times. But will higher education reforms change all that? Matthew Partridge investigates
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Gaming the World: How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture
This book is a valuable contribution to the burgeoning study of sport in a global perspective. Focusing largely on the "Big Four" sports in the US (baseball, basketball, American football and ice...
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Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK
It is timely that Jo Phoenix's edited collection, Regulating Sex For Sale: Prostitution Policy Reform in the UK, should have made its way into print just after the Policing and Crime Act 2009 became...
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BIS ministerial team announced
David Lammy keeps his higher education brief, but ‘student issues’ are now the responsibility of the Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs
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Campus round-up
Institute of Education - Primary class divideDifferent rates of progress among children in their first two years at school are still driven largely by their parents' social class, a UK-wide study has...
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Handle with care
League tables occupy the minds of vice-chancellors, politicians, academics and students, but Ellen Hazelkorn advises them not to draw hasty conclusions
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Unified theory: the academy, united, can never be defeated
As cuts bite, it would be easy for the sector to fragment. But, Keith Burnett argues, it must reject such pressures and work collectively to navigate the storm
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A novel idea: slow reading
Greg Garrard is torn between packing his course reading lists and giving his students time to reflect and dig deep
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Book of the week: Requiem for a Species
Why are most people 'everyday denialists'? Steven Yearley gets a sobering lesson
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Appointments
The University of Bath has appointed Ron Humphreys the new director of Bath Ventures, the body set up to promote and generate income from the institution's intellectual property. Formerly head of...
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The fruits of Californication
The Golden State's mix of public planning, spin-off innovation and private excellence has made it one of the global academy's powerhouses. But funding cuts threaten the University of California's pre...
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Strikes on cards as retrenchment worsens
Industrial action is being threatened at a number of universities as cutbacks continue.Staff at Thames Valley University have warned that they might strike in response to redundancy plans for its...
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For the many, not the few
It is time to extend R.H. Tawney's 1922 vision of universal secondary education to universal access to tertiary study, argues Simon Szreter, and also to reject the coalition's fatally misguided...