Drop the pilot: drone courses pursued in search of security
US students flock to unmanned-aircraft degrees as civilian market beckons. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
UCFB College of Football BusinessRichard FlashA former professional footballer has taken up the post of lecturer in football business and marketing at the UCFB College of Football Business.Richard...
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Odds and quads
In 2010, sculptor Tom Harvey created this work from the remains of a 250-year-old cedar tree - the oldest on the campus of The Open University - which had fallen victim to an infestation of the small...
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From where I sit - Perception is everything
The Knight review of Australia's student-visa programme has ushered in changes Down Under that are an inconvenience for the UK, but they are not the real cause of our current malaise - or the biggest...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Campus round-up
Imperial College LondonFairytale ending?The widely accepted "Goldilocks theory" of why life flourishes on Earth has been challenged. The idea posits there is no life on Venus or Mars because they are...
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The week in higher education
• An Indian postgraduate at Lancaster University was shot dead on 26 December as he made his way to the opening of the sales in Manchester. A 20-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Anuj...
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Questions, questions
Students are suffering from survey fatigue - as are we all, says Sally Feldman
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5 January 2012
Cash cow disease - How the wages of validation led to a 118-year-old institution’s demise
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THE Scholarly Web
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Leader: Perils of the export business
Although UK institutions' foreign-accreditation initiatives have been largely problem-free, even a few disasters are too many
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Scientists call for repeal of 'deluded' EPSRC measures
Willetts receives demand for ‘complete rethink’ of council’s structure and policies. Paul Jump reports
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Rip EPSRC equation up and start again
An open letter to David WillettsWe the undersigned are writing to you in your capacity as the minister of state for universities and science to again ask you to initiate an inquiry into the role and...
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Dividing chaos by two
"One quango to rule them all?" (22/29 December) set out many of the difficulties with the government's proposal to make the Higher Education Funding Council for England a "super-regulator". The...
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Simply pick the best
Ken Smith's recent letter regarding the percentage of students from state and independent schools going to Oxbridge is a direct plea for a quota system ("Super-selection only perpetuates privilege",...