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1 décembre 2018

Pitt Rivers museum hires Syrian refugees as tour guides

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianOxford University forges intercultural understanding with anthropological treasures. More...

1 décembre 2018

Oxford v Cambridge rivalry takes on a new spirit: gin

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianEight months after Oxford announced the production of Physic Gin, distilled from plants in the university’s botanic garden, Cambridge has created its own spirit. Costing nearly £40 a bottle, £5 more than its Oxonian counterpart, Curator’s Gin claims to benefit from a variety of floral flavourings, and ingredients including lavender, an unusual “green ginger” rosemary and berries from the dozens of varieties of juniper grown in the garden. The final ingredient, it says, is apples from a tree descended from the one that sent fruit tumbling on to Sir Isaac Newton’s head. More...

1 décembre 2018

Second parliamentary committee calls for means-tested student grants to be reinstated

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianPressure is growing on the government to reverse its scrapping of maintenance grants in England, after a second influential parliamentary committee called for financial support for disadvantaged students to be reinstated. More...

1 décembre 2018

It’s clear: the Tories still don’t think poor people need an education

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianThe Royal Society published a report in 2010 that mentioned, almost in passing, that the proportion of Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) postgraduates who would end up with professorships was 0.45%. More...

1 décembre 2018

Let’s have perspective in tuition fees debate

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianThe public have become sceptical of experts. One reason is that too many have used the platform their position gives them to indulge their prejudices. By all means criticise the university funding system, but do so with argument and reason. More...

1 décembre 2018

This toxic Brexit hurts universities, linking us to Trump and the rest

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianBrexit is rooted in the rejection of modernity and reason. Higher education cannot thrive where expertise is sneered at. More...

1 décembre 2018

We won't bail out failing universities, says higher education regulator

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianUniversities should not assume they will be bailed out from a financial crisis, according to the head of the higher education regulator in England, who likened them to overconfident banks before the global financial crisis. More...

1 décembre 2018

International students are abandoning Britain – we must stem the tide

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianAustralia, Canada and the EU are snapping at our universities’ heels as UK immigration policy is putting off talented young people. More...

1 décembre 2018

Higher education reform is our priority

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianOur report this week is focused on skills, social justice and good graduate outcomes. The fact is we have a huge skills deficit in our country, with the manufacturers organisation, the EEF, warning that almost three-quarters of businesses are concerned about finding workers with the skills they need. More...

1 décembre 2018

Joyless bores? No, today’s young are quiet revolutionaries

Screenshot-2018-4-23 The GardianThe younger generation have been caricatured as easily offended puritans. But they just want to expand freedom for all. More...

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