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United StatesIn two minds on training of mindsA national survey has found that Americans are split over the value of a degree. Six out of 10 respondents consider the costs associated with attending...
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Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
The success of the Australian economy - its last official recession ended in 1991 and it has enjoyed more than 20 years of almost uninterrupted growth, slowing only recently - is impressive in...
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Water world
Jules Pretty sets course on a journey across the oceans that haunt our imaginations
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR É«ºÐÖ±²¥ REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RsProject Grants• Award winner: Andrew Cossins• Institution: University of Liverpool• Value £440,093The...
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Long-term forecast: grey will go, leaving clear sky between elite and rest
Research will be focused in just 25 universities by 2025 as the UK sector becomes increasingly stratified, higher education experts have predicted.
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Open-ended answers for questions of demand in cash-strapped Europe
Open courseware is a shop window and a pressure valve, Delft leader argues. Jack Grove reports
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Declining investment could trigger irreversible loss of British prestige
Russell Group chair issues warning over threat to ‘hard-won eminence’. John Morgan reports
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New ZealandFee increase bid rejectedThe head of the body that represents Maori higher education students in New Zealand has welcomed the government's decision to turn down a university's application...
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Latest winners for investment fund announced
Seven university, business and charity partnerships have been announced as winners of the second round of the Research Partnership Investment Fund.
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On your Marx
Sheila Rowbotham on a portrait of a thinker who was neither infallible nor entirely prophetic
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ World University Rankings 2012-13
Losses for UK and US as Eastern excellence drives start to bear fruit. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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State schools fare poorly in inaugural class, but calibre delights Grayling
Only one in five offers by the New College of Humanities has gone to a person from a state school so far, according to A.C. Grayling, the master of the new institution.
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Of a different stripe
The suggestion that Pearson's apparent interest in acquiring the College of Law (The Week in Higher Education, 15 December) might cause the state-funded sector to "...feel like wildebeest about to...
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Emergent properties
Phil Baty on the institutions creating valuable niches for themselves in a fast-changing environment