Business schools were ‘used as a cash cow’, says Willetts
Universities were guilty in the past of “extracting money” from business school students without giving them good quality teaching.
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Vince Cable’s UUK speech
Lib Dem Business Secretary on immigration, fees and Willetts’ future
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Manchester Met v-c hits back on graduate employment
A vice-chancellor has declared he is “fed up with employers telling us our students are not employment ready”.
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World University Rankings 2012-13 methodology
The essential elements in our world-leading formula Underpinning the World University Rankings is a sophisticated exercise in information-gathering and analysis: here we detail the criteria used...
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David Willetts' PPS 'admits defeat' on net migration change
An MP close to David Willetts has admitted defeat on hopes to withdraw students from net migration figures in the near future.
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Three years after Browne: two outstanding questions
Emran Mian on the questions that bothered him while working on the Browne Review, and which bother him still
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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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The Lives of the Novel: A History, by Thomas G. Pavel
Robert Eaglestone lauds what will become a standard work in literary criticism
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In deserted fields, danger
A career in research is not attractive to Germans, suggests a study conducted by the country’s Federal Statistical Office. A large proportion of graduates do not continue with research once they get...