Welsh ‘hubs’ plan to boost Oxbridge acceptances
The “Oxbridge Ambassador for Wales” has recommended partnerships among schools to increase the number of Welsh pupils going to Oxford and Cambridge.
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University electric vehicle ownership way above national average
Survey reveals best and worst UK universities for electric vehicle ownership
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Asia University Rankings 2014 methodology
The Asia University Rankings guarantee quality by employing the same methodology as the blue-riband World University Rankings: here we detail the criteria that lie behind the calculations The Times...
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OU staff express anger over centre closure
Open letter over plan to shut East Grinstead regional centre and review others
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International student stabbed to death in Essex
A woman stabbed to death in Essex has been identified as a Saudi Arabian student who was taking an English language course at the county’s university.
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Cameron adviser calls for courses to be ranked using earnings data
An adviser to David Cameron has urged the government to rank universities’ courses based on their employment rates and graduate earnings.
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David Armstrong, 1926-2014
One of the leading Australian philosophers of his generation has died
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Q&A with Vivienne Stern
We speak to the director of the UK Higher Education International Unit
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THE Scholarly Web - 19 June 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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World in brief - 19 June 2014
United StatesLow grade for Obama’s scorecardsUS president Barack Obama has defended his proposal to introduce “scorecards” to rate universities and colleges after two congressmen introduced a...
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Inscrutable and proud
Brian Bloch’s excellent piece on impenetrable academic German (“Tapeworm got your tongue?”, News, 12 June) reminded me of a comment I heard many years ago about the German professoriate: “Sie schämen...
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Timetable for trouble
I was concerned to read the rather parochial view to extending the teaching timetable at the University of Exeter to 9pm (“No one fancies the late shift”, News, 12 June).Clearly, the concerns of...
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Brake before breaking mould
I have been interested to see that my letter on open access for monographs (29 May) has prompted a series of responses, acknowledging that this is a highly complex question and offering assurances...
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Belfast Project aftermath
In the lengthy piece on the Boston College oral history archives (“Oral history: where next after the Belfast Project?”, Features, 5 June), you say that “an investigation by the Society of American...