Inside Higher Ed: affirming affirmative action
By Michael Stratford, for Inside Higher Ed
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Willetts ends ELQ rule for part-time engineering and tech degrees
Fee loans will be offered to students studying engineering and technology part time as second degrees in a bid to attract more women to the subjects.
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CV lies increasing, survey suggests
Almost two-thirds of students and graduates know someone who has lied on their CV about their qualifications, a survey has found.
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FutureFest considers ideas for coming decades
Academics will join a host of well-known names for a festival this weekend encouraging each of us to cast our “mind forward 25 years to the 2030s”.
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Student complaints guidance ‘not always followed’, says OIA
Many universities are still failing to follow official guidance on when to report student complaints to the sector’s ombudsman, it has been warned.
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Latest Athena Swan awards announced
Applications to the Athena Swan Charter for Women in Science continue to grow, the latest set of awards has revealed.
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THE podcast: 26 September 2013 issue review
Download the podcastAn increase in the number of UK academics on 0.2 contracts, the study of William Shakespeare and this week’s books section are all up for discussion in the latest Times Higher...
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26 September 2013
Infinite in faculties - The study of Shakespeare: not weary, stale, flat or unprofitable
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News in brief - 26 September 2013
ChinaUS joint venture gets green lightThe Chinese government has formally approved the establishment of a new institution created jointly by a US and a Chinese university. Duke Kunshan University, a...
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Campus round-up - 26 September 2013
Source: ReutersEggs benedictionA research project is under way that aims to shed light on how the relationship between humans and chickens has developed over the past 8,000 years. Led by Mark Maltby...
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Marshall Berman, 1940-2013
An American political scientist and social critic whose writings were acclaimed by Christopher Hitchens as “scholarly but jargon-free, anchored in modern references but with a strong sense of history...
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Appointments - 26 September 2013
University College LondonDilly FungOn being offered the position of director of University College London’s Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, Dilly Fung immediately thought of her...
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THE Scholarly Web - 26 September 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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News in brief - 26 September 2013
Industrial action voteUCU ballot over pay disputeUnionised academics are being balloted for industrial action over employers’ 1 per cent pay offer. The University and College Union said it will...
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We're going up, up, up!
“Rejoice! Rejoice!” exclaimed our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, as he revealed at yesterday’s specially convened staff meeting in the atrium of the new Management Building that our...