The middle-class academic elite is totally out of touch
Universities must support and help the next generation of working-class researchers come through academia, says Lisa Mckenzie
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UK universities need assurances over Brexit now
It is time to say how UK higher education will engage with the European Union
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UUK TEF review: sector hostility to TEF risks making it worse
Edward Peck looks at the findings of UUK’s Review of the Teaching Excellence Framework
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‘S-index’ aims to tackle abuse of self-citations in science
Metric on self-referencing could provide ‘truer’ citation data, say researchers
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A survey of 3,500 UK-based international students with surprising results
Time to remove students from migrant numbers, says Jane Falkingham
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Manchester’s Bernstein: universities key to ‘world’s most successful cities’
Driving force in ‘edgy, self-confident’ city’s regeneration rallies sector support for Northern Powerhouse
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Impact weighting increased in UK’s REF 2021
Hefce stops short of adopting Lord Stern’s proposal to include university-wide impact in research assessment scores
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Data bite: how many UK graduates travel across the EU for work?
Figures from the latest graduate destinations survey show that more than two fifths of those working abroad find a job in another EU state
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Daughter follows father in winning UK's top teaching award
HEA's latest National Teaching Fellows announced
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Do great minds think alike? The THE/Lindau Nobel Laureates Survey
We share what 50 Nobel prizewinners think about issues facing science, universities and the world, from populist politics and researcher mobility, to artificial intelligence and threats to humankind
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What blockchain technology could mean for universities
Advocates say that the technology will cut out degree fraud – but could it actually help to fracture universities?
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V-cs’ social media silence ‘misses huge opportunity’
Just one leader of a top 10 UK university has a Twitter account, report reveals
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Strange Vernaculars: How Eighteenth-Century Slang, Cant, Provincial Languages, and Nautical Jargon Became English, by Janet Sorensen
The speech of the lower classes won acceptance only after a make-over, finds Elspeth Jajdelska