Academic Funding

Alternative White Paper
Academic Funding
August 18, 2011

Alternative White Paper

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Are we sleepwalking into the US higher education system’s mistakes?
Academic Funding
August 1, 2011

Are we sleepwalking into the US higher education system’s mistakes?

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Where did all the sociologists go? Querying ‘the lecturer experience’
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July 20, 2011

Where did all the sociologists go? Querying ‘the lecturer experience’

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David Brooks on “The Unexamined Society”
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July 12, 2011

David Brooks on “The Unexamined Society”

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Specialisation is back on the HE agenda, but not for the first time

Specialisation is back on the HE agenda, but not for the first time

This was originally published on the Guardian Higher Education Network blog. By Tamson Pietsch In June results were released of the pilot […]

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Putting vision back into higher education: A response to the Government White Paper

Putting vision back into higher education: A response to the Government White Paper

There is no government mandate for the privatisation of higher education and for the despoiling of the social and cultural value of […]

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Got questions for Obama? Tweet now

Got questions for Obama? Tweet now

MSNBC announces that today Twitter will hold its first Twitter Town Hall, and United States President Barack Obama will answer Twitter users’ […]

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Students as consumers – the impact of individual choice

Students as consumers – the impact of individual choice

The higher education White Paper published this week by the UK government (‘Students at the heart of the system’) will, according to […]

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‘Dismantling excellence, reducing quality, and increasing costs for students’

‘Dismantling excellence, reducing quality, and increasing costs for students’

The Campaign for the Public University has posted a response to the UK Government’s White Paper on higher education, arguing that the […]

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Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities

Inequality, power and privilege in the struggle for the humanities

Much ink has already been spilled to condemn and defend the establishment of the New College of the Humanities (NCH), announced earlier […]

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A US perspective on England’s new private ‘liberal arts’ college

A US perspective on England’s new private ‘liberal arts’ college

A US perspective on the New College of the Humanities in the UK, which will charge students £18,000 per year and will offer […]

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Round up: Senator Coburn’s report on National Science Foundation funding

Round up: Senator Coburn’s report on National Science Foundation funding

There has been a good deal of debate across the web this week following the publication of a report by United States […]

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