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COVER STORY
No awards for equity
20 November 2008
Rather than helping poor students through their studies, universities may be using bursaries to give themselves a recruiting advantage, writes Rebecca Attwood
NEWS
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Lower interest from abroad would push seven into red
Lower interest from abroad would push seven into red
20 November 2008
Exchange-rate shifts could expose UK institutions to dangerous drops in income, says John Gill
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Taboo but true: PhD students 'not up to scratch'
Taboo but true: PhD students 'not up to scratch'
20 November 2008
Supervisors struggle to get ill-equipped candidates through their research projects. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Hefce names new chief executive
20 November 2008
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Scotland pledges funding deal to keep universities level with England
20 November 2008
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Leicester reaches for stars as new build totals £1bn
20 November 2008
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Universities told to plough more money into pensions
20 November 2008
ONLINE COLUMNISTS
Moving with the times
20 November 2008
One happy childhood memory that I cherish is riding in a clunky old white Volvo with my much bigger big brother. I was eight. He was 23 and completing his sixth and final year of a medical degree. As we crunched around the roads with Abba’s...
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Terkel, Guthrie, Springsteen, Obama – and us
13 November 2008
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A sour taste in celebrity confection
6 November 2008
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Beanbags, postbags and a new perspective
30 October 2008
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A sudden step up the career ladder
23 October 2008
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A gathering in the ninth circle with Elvis and Yoko
23 October 2008
PEOPLE
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John Usher, 1945-2008
20 November 2008
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Star of Africa
20 November 2008
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Appointments
20 November 2008
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Indelible marks
13 November 2008
TEACHING
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You can lead cattle to water but you can't make them think
You can lead cattle to water but you can't make them think
13 November 2008
A lesson in animal behaviour helped Bob Blaisdell improve classroom comforts and student learning
BOOKS
Book of the week: The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
20 November 2008
The Middle Ages were dark, bloody and brutal, discovers John Arnold
Base deeds in a Low Country
20 November 2008
Fred Halliday examines the broad historical issues of a Dutch society in crisis
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Published this week
20 November 2008
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In the beginning was the letter
20 November 2008
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The Savage Text: The Use and Abuse of the Bible
20 November 2008
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Where rhetoric meets reality
20 November 2008
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Top 10 Academic Bestsellers: Blackwell, Loughborough
20 November 2008
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Fame
20 November 2008
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Kurdistan: Crafting of National Selves
20 November 2008
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Churchill: The Greatest Briton Unmasked
20 November 2008
OPINIONS AND LEADERS
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Nine out of ten dogmas
Nine out of ten dogmas
20 November 2008
Frank Furedi on the assumptions, agendas and distinctly iffy data behind those ubiquitous words, 'research shows'
CAREER
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Helping students prepare personal development plans
31 July 2008
Your enthusiasm could be key to engaging students in setting learning and career goals and identifying achievements they can build on.
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THE CONFERENCES
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Making the most of your university’s intellectual property. 26 November 2008
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LAURIE TAYLOR COLUMN
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Can't Work. Won't Work
Can't Work. Won't Work
20 November 2008
"Another first for Poppleton." Those were the triumphant words used by our Director of Curriculum Development, Janet Fluellen, as she announced the introduction from this September of a brand-new BA degree in Unemployment.
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Cartoon by Ham
20 November 2008
