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Widening accessExtended pathways to lawA programme to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become lawyers is being extended thanks to a ?1.2 million grant from a charitable foundation...
Widening accessExtended pathways to lawA programme to help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to become lawyers is being extended thanks to a ?1.2 million grant from a charitable foundation...
School of Advanced Study dean looks to humanities future after Hefce backing. Elizabeth Gibney reports
Working-time culture: no need for taught CVsI sympathise with Steve Sarson (“Students are sent to the rat race maze: syllabus is history”, Opinion, 21?March). Like him, I teach history undergraduates...
Sciences Po job will not weaken commitment to UK assessment, says politics chair. Paul Jump reports
Better regional R&D strategies needed to access structural funds, sector told. Elizabeth Gibney writes
But business may have to write a bigger cheque, shadow minister indicates. John Morgan reports
State lowers graduate pay hurdle as civil servant backs student migrants. David Matthews reports
The government says its plans to exempt for-profit higher education providers from VAT are developing, despite a Budget announcement postponing the proposals because of “significant concerns”.For-...
Academic occupied positions simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic. Paul Jump reports