Laurie Taylor - 18 June 2015
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End of regular reviews could devalue UK’s quality currency
Irish regulator warns of potential threat of QAA’s move to risk-based review system
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V-cs bemoan constraints on educational innovation
Conservative university cultures cost UK in global leadership, chiefs complain
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Exeter v-c raises spectre of differentiation ‘car crash’
Sir Steve Smith shares concerns that funding pressures could lead to university ‘hierarchy’
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Time spent abroad may help UK students empathise with overseas peers
Nottingham Trent pro v-c aims to promote friendships across nationalities
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BIS shelves bids for degree-awarding powers during rules review
Applications suspended until audit of processes and guidance is complete
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Fall in graduate earnings premium
The graduate earnings premium has fallen over the past nine years, new data suggest
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Tackle laddish conduct more vigorously, OIA head says
Universities must address campus ‘drink culture’, whose consequences are reflected in adjudicator’s caseload, says Rob Behrens
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Rise in unconditional offers causes concerns about fairness
About 10 per cent of admissions staff say their university offers places over the phone on predicted grades alone, UCU survey finds
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Teaching grant may be sliced to make the cut, some suggest
Time needed to shift to maintenance loans means BIS savings will have to come from elsewhere, sector believes
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Losing our place in the vanguard?
Senior figures worry that the UK is lagging behind the innovators and entrepreneurs pushing the frontiers of higher education
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 18 June 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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Being human is good for science
Sir Tim Hunt made some spectacularly inept remarks about women in science, which are rightly being thoroughly ridiculed. He taught me as an undergraduate, and I have run into him over the years since...