David Willetts on the future of higher education
Minister of state for universities and science David Willetts discusses UK higher education at Brunel University in London
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Universities to get near 6 per cent cut to ‘most teaching budgets’
Teaching grants for universities in England are to fall by more than the £45 million announced last month, the country’s funding council has said.
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Universities should face more scrutiny over competition, says OFT
The Office of Fair Trading wants further scrutiny of English higher education to judge if some rules for students may breach consumer protection law
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Hermann Hauser to look at future of Catapults
Ministers have commissioned a review on the possibility of expanding the Technology Strategy Board’s network of Catapult centres.
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Warwick UCU calls for Thomas Docherty to be reinstated
Union members have called for a prominent critic of higher education policy to be returned to work after he was suspended by the University of Warwick.
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THE podcast: 13 March 2014 issue review
Download the podcastFears that universities could lose their licences to recruit overseas students, the implications of zero-hours contracts for university employees, and the memoirs of John Carey...
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Sodexo-Times Higher Education University Lifestyle Survey 2014 results
How has debt from higher fees changed students?
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John Carey: the constant reader
Despite the snobbery of Oxford, a young literary scholar found the liberty to know and speak his mind
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World in brief - 13 March 2014
United StatesBright ideas on the blockA US university is to auction off some of its intellectual property licences. Successful bidders will obtain licensing rights to patents derived from research...
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Grant winners - 13 March 2014
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilResearch GrantsAward winner: Sue HartleyInstitution: University of YorkValue: £313,008Establishing biofumigation as a sustainable replacement to...
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THE Scholarly Web - 13 March 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Michael Rosen
We speak to the professor of children’s literature at Goldsmiths, University of London
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Lance Davis, 1928-2014
A pioneering economic historian, whose work examined everything from banking and imperialism to whaling, has died
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News in brief - 13 March 2014
Financial healthDark clouds on horizonSlowing growth in international student numbers could have “a material impact on the sector”, along with looming pension liabilities. Those are among the...
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Short and sweet
Open letter to Georgina Edsel, Deputy Head of Brand Management, Poppleton UniversityI feel I must write and say how grateful we are for your help in publicising our decision to simplify our name. I...