Standards deviation
Whether or not the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s new system for quality assessment will be less burdensome is very much up in the air at present (“Our plans for quality assessment...
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Happy to comply
I think that the University of Edinburgh’s plan to have campus staff report their whereabouts to managers when they leave their “normal place of work” for a morning or afternoon is a very positive...
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Evaluator victor
As a coordinator of one of the sub-groups evaluating research in Italy’s present VQR (“Evaluation of Research Quality”), I can assure the UK public that our evaluation procedure is alive and well (“...
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How Germany regained the fast lane
With targeted help from the government, the country’s universities have reasserted their quality and regained their global standing
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First non-STEM Athena SWAN winners named
Durham, Edinburgh and Queen’s University Belfast pick up inaugural awards for arts, humanities and social science departments
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Graduate debt ‘higher in England than in US’
Sutton Trust report warns that finding is ‘cause for concern’
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Africa Summit 2016: proper credit is 'boosting African research'
But the vice-chancellor of the University of Ghana says academics must still 'push' for recognition
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The road to student retention
Well-targeted mental health support can help students stay on track in an uncapped sector, says David Laws
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I’m a university teacher clawing my way back to the middle class
How can it be that experienced, full-time lecturers teaching huge classes at Canadian universities can be on such low salaries that they officially qualify as “poor”?, asks Andrew W. Robinson
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Iran’s coming in from the cold but Bahá’ís are still frozen out
Discrimination and university expulsions continue to blight the lives of this religious minority, writes Shabnam Moinipour
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Africa university alliance ‘will boost higher education’
Director of education and society at the British Council says Western universities must prove they do not have ‘imperialist’ designs on the continent
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Can academics change their students’ personalities?
‘Character education’, a concept that has taken off among schoolteachers, could be coming to higher education
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Barack Obama free community college plan backed by $100m funding
‘America’s Promise Grants’ find way around Republican block in Congress