Robbins: 50 years later
Experts discuss the development and legacy of the epochal report on its golden anniversary
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Students deserve a fair hearing from universities
Some institutions’ appeals panels deny students a chance of justice, says Daniel Sokol
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Uclan data point to falling student recruitment
Internal papers show 3 per cent decline in firm acceptances for University of Central Lancashire
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Research collaboration patterns in Europe
More than half (57 per cent) of all European research papers are written by authors with collaborators outside their institution, a study has found
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Research cluster explores all things gothic
Manchester Met launches interdisciplinary Centre for Gothic Studies
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JoVE journal’s videos take strain out of new science
Model is saving research from ‘scourge of irreproducibility’, says founder Moshe Pritsker
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Old boys and backhanders
Zhang Shuguang, a former railway ministry official, recently went on trial for corruption. He pleaded guilty, and admitted to having spent nearly half of the $7.8 million (£4.9 million) in bribes...
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Small US colleges scramble for survival
Institutions struggle as the pool of potential students shrinks
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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957, by Frank Dikötter
Jennifer Altehenger on a compelling account of the Communist involvement in the Civil War and of the first eight years of Communist rule
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Gotcha!
Source: AlamyHere today. Here tomorrow.Our Head of Campus Security, Brigadier T. W. Trouncing, has praised the University of Sunderland and the University of Ulster for what he describes as “their...
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Willetts: teaching must be as valued as research
During THE podcast, universities minister points to Robbins’ example
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The week in higher education - 24 October 2013
Being forced to live in a travel hotel equidistant from London and Norwich didn’t work out too well for Alan Partridge. But 100 Anglia Ruskin University undergraduates starting term by living at a...
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OFT scrutinises sector: could it challenge the fees cap?
Some in the academy believe it could
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Moocs hotly debated at Battle of Ideas
Massive open online courses: new horizon or redundancy tool? Experts fight it out