THE World University Rankings
Why are European taxpayers paying EUR1.1 million (£950,000) for the development of a new set of university performance measures when there are already two "globally recognised" rankings produced by...
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Embrace an old-timer now
Cherish the humble professor whose focus is on knowledge - not the latest gimmick - while you can, says Jeffrey Ross
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There's nothing difficult or undesirable about sharing scholarship
Intellectual as well as strategic arguments should lead scholars to welcome research impact assessment, says Robin Hambleton
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Have you nothing to say about the cost and value of what you provide?
Anna Fazackerley wonders why vice-chancellors are so quiet about the future of tuition fees - and what students should expect for their money
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Help us help you and them
University support for the Teach First scheme will benefit everyone involved in education, asserts James Darley
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The week in higher education
Universities have been urged to take the "brief window through which they might escape and be true to themselves" as the Government strengthens its hold over the sector. Writing in The Guardian on 26...
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Refusal to comply on impact failing to sink grant applications
Some research councils face opposition, but others see creative thinking. Zoë Corbyn writes
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US scholar claims intellectuals played ruinous role in a century of horrors
Intellectuals - and particularly academics - have been accused by one of their own of making the world a worse and more dangerous place in the 20th century.Thomas Sowell, senior fellow of the Hoover...
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Numbers cut will 'hit poor hardest'
'Non-standard' applicants may lose out as 6,000 student places are lost. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Fees 'no substitute' for Treasury funding
UUK president offers home truths to fees review. Rebecca Attwood and Melanie Newman report
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Crouching tigers ready to pounce
Yale boss welcomes 'audacious' ambitions of emerging Asian nations. Phil Baty reports
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Newcastle goes back to basics to avoid plagiarism
A faculty at the centre of an embarrassing plagiarism case has ordered senior researchers to check more carefully the drafts of papers written by inexperienced colleagues.The faculty of medical...
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'Draconian' measure: King's to cut 205 jobs
College cites government reductions and RAE results as reasons for purge. John Morgan writes
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RCUK's back-office blues as project blows budget while delivering less
Shared Service Centre's business plan in the dock for grossly inaccurate forecasts. Zoë Corbyn writes
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'Naive' arts partners exploited by the academy
Universities are inadvertently "exploiting" small arts organisations because of their superior negotiating skills when working on joint projects.An analysis commissioned by the London Centre for Arts...