Change at any cost
PA Consulting Group must have been delighted at having its recent report described without comment or alternative views (“V-cs wanting to lead from the front are frustrated by a lack of followers”,...
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Campus close-up: University of Brighton
Troops to Teachers programme allows veterans to turn swords into whiteboards
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The academy’s super troupers
A study of European research output reveals the prolificacy of an elite group of scholars. Chris Havergal discovers their characteristics
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Caribbean v-c’s democratic vision at home and abroad
Sir Hilary Beckles tells Ellie Bothwell about his plans for the University of the West Indies’ future
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World in brief – 9 July 2015
Higher education news from around the globe
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UK leads on European Research Council cash
New research grant data show Britain continuing to lead the league
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Grant winners – 9 July 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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QAA: A watchdog is for life
Roger Brown weeds out ill-advised plans as he digests Hefce’s consultation on quality assurance
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A metrics-based REF: from sexennial pain to permanent headache
Abandoning peer review could lead to never-ending assessment, micromanagement of staff and übergaming, warns Howard Hotson
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Selecting Oxford’s professor of poetry should not be trial by media
It’s time to change the system, argues Lucy Newlyn
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Conference season is here again
Shahidha Bari on a supposedly fun thing that makes her apprehensive
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Pope’s decree fuels debate in academy on fossil fuel divestment
Green encyclical ups pressure on Catholic universities to show moral leadership on climate change. Will more make an ethical shift?
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Humanities crisis? What crisis?
Cambridge historian warns universities against ‘crying wolf’ and insists that enrolments have mushroomed in the UK and US over the past 50 years