What does 2016 have in store for higher education?
Our bloggers and social media followers gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the year in HE might look like
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Do sporting metaphors sell academics short?
Using the language of sport to sell metrics-based performance management ignores what sport can really teach academia, argues linguistics scholar Liz Morrish
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Russell Group v-cs awarded modest pay rises
Average increase of 6 per cent in pay and pensions packages inflated by ‘transitional arrangements’ at Durham
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Ed Balls: failure to find ‘sustainable’ way to fund universities a ‘blot on Labour’s copybook’
Former Labour shadow chancellor, now visiting professor at King’s Policy Institute, believes graduate tax would avoid dangers of fees market
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Blindly counting academics’ publications ‘is the road to hell’
Jenny McDonald examines the response to calls for academics who are not highly productive researchers to be given more recognition
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To ban or not to ban? Why we shouldn’t be hasty about book censorship
The decision to republish Mein Kampf is a reminder that we can learn from hateful words, says Marion Wynne-Davis
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‘Generational schism’ on race lines could cut public support for higher education
Older white voters more hostile to state university funding if younger population is ethnically diverse, Californian study finds
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NUS ‘must focus on areas where it can have biggest impact’
Chief executive Simon Blake responds to concerns that union is ‘less than the sum of its parts’
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US court backs university decision to refuse teacher training applicant
Mark Oyama’s statements about adult-child sex and schoolchildren with disabilities made him ‘unsuitable’, University of Hawaii said
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Lake Superior State University produces list of 13 ‘banished words’
US institution reveals its 41st annual list of words that should be banned due to misuse, overuse and general uselessness
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Donald Trump is speaking at my university today, and it’s fine by me
Should the University of Massachusetts Lowell be opening its doors to the controversial US presidential hopeful? John Kaag consulted his students