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While the numbers in the average salary tables published last week may well be accurate, the information content of the tables is low, if not zero.Having first discarded the distortions for London...
While the numbers in the average salary tables published last week may well be accurate, the information content of the tables is low, if not zero.Having first discarded the distortions for London...
Among the important points made by Iain Pears in "Universities are not businesses" is the connection between the recent managerial emphasis on "strategic vision" (which includes approved "research...
Bullying is widespread throughout the workplace, and includes the harassment and victimisation of whistleblowers or those who raise grievances. It is a particularly serious problem in higher...
I doubt David Lammy and Diana Johnson could put forward a coherent argument for the importance of foreign language learning in relation to business competitiveness: the UK's main non-European trading...
Your article "Now what have we here?" (1 April), which sets out the National Policing Improvement Agency's strategy for increasing the use of new technologies and social science research in...
Last week's THE covered a conference debate on critical theory and education in which I am reported to have made a direct and general comparison between the situation of Anne Frank and today's...

A British expert on American history who was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic has died.Jack Pole was born in London on 14 March 1922 and attended a progressive school in Hampstead.After...

"The time has come to root out this new challenge." This was the no-nonsense declaration from Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, as he inaugurated the newly formed Irony Sub-Committee...
I recently came across an astounding German book, Professor Untat (2007), by Uwe Kamenz, a professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and Martin Werle, a management consultant...
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The co-founder of Evidence is continuing his work to improve research-data analysis. Zoë Corbyn reports
The government now wants even postgraduate education to serve industry by inculcating business awareness and skills training
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the interdependence of teaching and research
Malaysia is a step closer to its target to have an all-graduate teaching workforce by 2020 thanks to the universities of Hertfordshire and Canterbury Christ Church. They have worked with Australia's...
University acquires 14,000-title collection of works spanning four centuries. Matthew Reisz reports