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Ireland’s private leader aims to be accommodating
Institution targets untapped foreign market
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Getting to know you
Engine of social progress“What local community?”Just one of the remarks made to our Town-Gown committee as they examined the university’s relationship with the city of Poppleton in the wake of survey...
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Research heavyweights deny ‘ganging up’
A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports
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Can Hefce still land a ‘big beast’?
Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader
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Research intelligence - Northern apprentice aims to become master
Huddersfield fosters entrepreneurial and academic excellence side by side. Paul Jump writes
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Kick-starters: knowledge transfer in practice
More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found
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The week in higher education - 9 May 2013
“Boring” university lectures are likely to be the first victims of the rise of online learning, according to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. Speaking to BBC Online on 1 May, Mr Wales suggested that...
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UEL left rudderless after v-c and two senior managers resign
East London institution is mired in difficulty as leadership disintegrates
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London votes to close down ULU
Questions are raised about whether colleges have outgrown the university’s federal structure
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UCL biologist cleared of research misconduct
But investigation finds that practice ‘did not always meet’ expected standards
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FE colleges ‘may lose students to Moocs’
Will Yale’s lure empty out the sixth forms?
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Royal Holloway council lacks academic input: UCU
Unity decries decisions made ‘ad hoc’ without consulting scholars
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Lancaster considers federal union to bolster world profile and research power
V-c believes ‘radical solution’ is the way to rise up the rankings. John Morgan reports
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News in brief - 9 May 2013
SingaporeBy George protesters standAcademics and students at Nanyang Technological University have taken to the internet to protest over a prominent scholar and critic of state power in Singapore who...