Attainment: a third option
In your article “Universities defend access record after Cameron criticism” (1 February) there appears to be a consensus that to overcome the continued inequality in access, more cooperation between...
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What for the HEA?
The very existence of the Higher Education Academy seems so central to the Green Paper’s proposals to construct a teaching excellence framework that it is bewildering to find only a scattering of...
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Take it all in
In the article on how higher selectivity of research papers fails to increase impact, Pascal Rocha da Silva, process strategy manager at open access publisher Frontiers, writes that a rejection rate...
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Come to a good end
Toxicology, the study of poisons, is now a mature branch of science, but there are other kinds of toxicity. One of these is the idea of a “good university”, and I believe that this is a “toxic idea”...
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Laurie Taylor – 11 February 2016
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Who ought to pick up the tab?
While buoyant student numbers may imply that £9K is OK, the jury is still out on the ‘right’ split between student and state
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Top 25 universities over 400 years old
Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the best ancient institutions
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What it feels like to freeze on national television
Australian academic Benjamin Habib reflects on the worst public embarrassment of his career
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Universities must make better use of their governors
The gap between the perceptions of governors and academic staff about the key challenges facing institutions need to be plugged, says Janet Legrand
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Greg Dyke: 'total cop-out' to blame access inequality on schools
Former University of York chancellor says leading universities should lower entry requirements for students from poor backgrounds
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Student loan write-off estimate lowered to 20-25%
Critics claim graduates treated unfairly in 'smoke and mirrors' RAB change
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A Europe without the UK and a UK outside Europe have no great future
The idea that UK research and higher education could flourish post-Brexit is an illusion, argues Rolf Tarrach
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Are you an ‘academic superhero’?
Job descriptions demand early career academics be multitalented ‘superheroes’, a study suggests