New union-employer talks after UCU's marking boycott threat
Universities are set to enter new talks with sector unions, after academics threatened a marking boycott
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British Academy looks for solutions on ageing society
The British Academy is launching a major series of free public debates examining the crucial issues of our time
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THE books podcast: Danny Dorling interview
Download the podcastDanny Dorling, Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford, in conversation with Times Higher Education books editor, Karen Shook.Professor Dorling is the...
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6 challenges impeding technology adoption in higher education in 2014
In our second look at the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition, we cover the six “significant challenges” it identifies as impeding the adoption of technology in higher education
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Osborne unveils China-Russell Group link
George Osborne has announced a programme of collaboration between leading universities in China and the UK’s Russell Group institutions.
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Hepi wants change to "messy status quo" on private providers
The new Higher Education Policy Institute director has called for reform of regulatory differences between universities and private providers.
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THE podcast: 20 February 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe implications of a proposed marking boycott, the possibility of banks providing an alternative to student loans, and Nick Hillman’s first interview as director of the Higher...
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Physicists are more intelligent than social scientists, paper says
Social scientists are of ‘lower average intelligence’ than those in natural sciences - at least at elite universities, authors argue
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Academia’s underclass
The article on the plight of graduate teaching assistants (“Ignored and forgotten”, Opinion, 13 February) was painfully true. I was a GTA for three years. I basically had a year when I did almost no...
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Broad church of the mind
Could working in a ‘team of rivals’ encourage academic creativity - and turn out better equipped graduates, too?
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Gove tight-lipped on A-level revamp cost
But estimate puts cost of Russell Group-led redesign at £10 million a year
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UUK review to focus on personnel
Workforce efficiencies study is about best practice, not cuts, body says
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Women in STEM still waiting for structural change
Dame Athene Donald brands MPs’ report on women in science ‘weak’
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Hefce’s Kaplan appointment risks ‘barbarians at the gate’
David Willetts accused of favouring for-profit sector with board appointment