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The Open University's pro v-c for research on impact, doctorates and the digital space. Paul Jump reports

The Open University's pro v-c for research on impact, doctorates and the digital space. Paul Jump reports
A European Commission-funded project to compare universities is “unlikely to further boost the profile of UK institutions and may actually confuse the picture for prospective applicants”, the 1994...
In a reformed sector, marketers should play a role in the creation of degrees - but academics must remain in charge of the process
For far too long, Nigeria's leaders have ignored the hidden factors underpinning the dismal performance of the country's university system.Recently, the newspapers quoted Namadi Sambo, Nigeria's vice...
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University of LiverpoolTurn the page on painA new research centre will explore how reading can help sufferers of serious health conditions including depression, dementia and chronic pain. The...
• A journalism lecturer and former News of the World reporter arrested in connection with the phone-hacking scandal says she has "never been involved in the interception of telecommunications"....

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Today's corporate vocabulary, freely and unthinkingly deployed by university leaders, was a product of the military. It was then adopted by the first modern big businesses, the railways, in the 19th...
If Times Higher Education were an academic journal, it would have been particularly pleasing to have been its guest editor last week. There are so many clear conceptual links between the articles...
The Woolf report recommends that the London School of Economics should have an "embedded code of ethics and reputational risk" ("LSE's 'mistakes were legion' in Libyan dealings, Woolf finds", 1...
It's a bit late to start worrying about a possible fall in state school applications to more selective institutions as more students choose to study at home to reduce costs ("Elite fear fall in...
In their different ways, Malcolm Gillies ("Thou shalt not sit on fences", 1 December) and John Mair ("Breaking the news mould", 1 December) help us to think beyond the academy's conventional "regime...