Principal poll: v-cs don’t rate Mooc threat
No such thing as higher education sector, claims one v-c in 60-strong poll. John Morgan writes
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NUS president’s parting shots
NUS’ outgoing leader tells John Morgan that v‑cs and Russell Group must stand up for the sector
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Global young guns: East rises, UK falls
UK loses some gloss in second global ranking of youthful institutions, Jack Grove writes
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Good science but bad business? Put it on the kill list
Knowledge-transfer experts map path to market for university inventions. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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When business partners get that sinking feeling
Rick Rylance offers academy guidance for business collaborations
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News in brief
Funding and donationsArchive of pain nets £1m grantThe world’s oldest archive devoted to the Holocaust and the Nazi era has secured a £1 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to safeguard its...
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Praise for Willetts over birth cohort data
Willetts’ support for birth cohort study wins unlikely fans at forum. Matthew Reisz reports
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Campus round-up
Remember themEducation experts will lead a project to send two pupils and a teacher from every state secondary school to the battlefields of the First World War. Working with the Education Travel...
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Odds and quads
These images represent highlights from a collection of almost 200 rare books, incunabula and manuscripts donated by the businessman Henry Davis (1897-1977) to the University of Ulster.
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Plantation ‘poppadoms’ on digital menu, at last
Fire-damaged 17th-century survey of Northern Ireland unlocked at last. Matthew Reisz reports
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Occupied thoughts in diary form
Sheffield film to draw on late academic’s first-hand account of occupied Paris. Matthew Reisz reports
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News in brief
AustraliaTesting times for TeqsaAustralia’s new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott’s...
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Let’s give it another year, says Delhi
V-c points to structural reform’s intellectual and vocational benefits. John Morgan reports
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Copy that: it would be an honour
The first step in tackling plagiarism in Japan is making students understand what it is, as it is a Western concept that does not fit well within Asian culture. To describe it, the Japanese word...
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IntoUniversity: an aptly named charity
Educational charity in the vanguard of university outreach is getting results. Jack Grove reports