David Willetts interview: ‘What I did was in the interests of young people’
The former universities minister discusses the reforms that reshaped higher education and his first steps into academia
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Campus close-up: ‘It didn’t make sense for Writtle to farm out degree-awarding powers’
For a small, specialist institution, Writtle College has sizeable ambitions
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THE podcast: Steve Waite interview
THE reporter Chris Parr in conversation with the principal of Writtle College
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Life after death: one scholar’s advice on developing a ‘new normal’
Nicole Westmarland shares what she learned about creating a new way of working in academia after losing her spouse
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Threats to universities go unheard amid sound and the fury
A babel of voices are drowning out the many real threats to intellectual freedom, warns Alan Ryan
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Judith Layzer, 1961-2015
A leading expert in how scientific research can best be used to promote environmental causes has died
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Q&A with Daniella Tilbury
The well-travelled scholar boldly goes where no Gibraltarian has gone before
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Row over Nobel prizewinner’s ‘ill-judged’ remarks
Sir Tim Hunt’s comments about ‘girls’ in science provoke online storm
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Illuminating manuscripts for the digital age
A team at the Uppsala University Library is working to crack the code for digitising handwritten text
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Peer reviewers aren’t on the same page a third of time
Study led by Angela Dobele of RMIT finds there is no consensus on the value of a paper in 32 per cent of cases
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Students suffer as supervisors become superiors
A note left by a postgrad who killed himself because he felt ill-treated by his supervisor highlights a worrying trend, says Hong Bing
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Campuses urged to regard religion as a diversity issue
Sector called on to embrace faith-related concerns in intellectual debates
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Call to tackle lack of BME scholars in senior roles
Paper addresses ‘stark under-representation’ of black and minority ethnic staff in university senior management
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Ghanaian game-show winner now studying at Northumbria University
Contestant in African nation’s answer to The Apprentice wins MSc scholarship
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News in brief – 18 June 2015
UK higher education round-up and highlights from the Twittersphere