REF 2014 rerun: who are the 'game players'?
How do rankings shift when institutions are compared on research intensity, which takes into account percentage of staff submitted, rather than on standard GPA alone?
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Wikipedia and the Politics of Openness, by Nathaniel Tkacz
Paul Bernal admires an analysis of the sanctified ‘neutrality’ of the encyclopedia we all love to hate
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News in brief - 1 January 2015
Terror billHefce may monitor complianceEngland’s funding council should take on new powers to ensure that universities and private colleges comply with duties to prevent people being drawn into...
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2014: the year in higher education
Many vice-chancellors may be looking forward to 2015 with some trepidation given the trouble there was at the top in 2014. The news of exits began in March, when Chris Higgins said he would be...
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New Year: the hopes and fears
With the fever of REF results subsiding, we contemplate what 2015 might hold in store for higher education
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Silent treatment
Roger Morgan in his review of Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (“Mining a rich seam of history”, Books, 11 December) informs us that in 1951 Bevan “demonstrated his...
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Languages divide
I applaud the argument that a deeper understanding of foreign languages is essential in international negotiations, be they commercial, political or cultural (“The words are not enough”, News, 11...
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Medicine, a distant dream
We are all limited by our imagination. And our imagination is contained by experience, our own and that of those known to us. Therefore someone born into an environment where no predecessor has been...
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USS guesswork
We write as members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme who are concerned that negotiations over the future of our pension scheme are based on the projection of a very large deficit based on an...
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St Patrick’s warned over finances before getting green light on SLC cash
Private college seeking designation invested £3 million after being told it needed to inject further funding
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Greg Clark fails to rule out merging UK research councils
The universities minister offered no guarantees in the review of the agencies
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Non-EU students still attracted to UK universities
The number of students from the Middle East coming to UK universities more than doubled between 2003-04 and 2012-13. As traffic from all other regions also rose, the total number of non-European...
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Unconditional offers are little help in student recruitment, says Ucas
A small number of universities are responsible for the spike in unconditional offers in 2014