Oxford criticised in latest Green League
Universities have been lambasted for their “excruciatingly slow progress” on switching away from investments in “unethical” industries such as oil.
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Welsh universities ‘create billions’ for country’s economy
Universities in Wales have launched a report that argues that they create £3.6 billion for the country’s economy every year.
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Labour ‘open’ to rekindling targets for overseas student growth
Labour’s shadow business secretary is “open” to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been “taken hostage by the Home Office”...
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Inside Higher Ed: Scholars as ‘Foreign Agents’
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Student visitor route not being abused, says government
The Home Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement
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Extend part-time loans, IPPR report to urge
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
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George Osborne gives strong hint on protecting science
George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review
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THE podcast: 6 June 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThis week’s issue review was recorded in Red Lion Square, outside the Times Higher Education’s London offices. The concept of monitoring graduates’ earnings according to the...
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THE podcast: Global University Summit 2013
Source: Rex FeaturesDownload the podcastThe 2013 Global University Summit took place in central London between the 28 and the 30 May. In this special podcast, we have exclusive interviews with Boris...
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Journals' ends: scholars favour prestige over access
When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found
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Tackle research fraud with ‘fear factor’: psychiatrist
Reassure junior researchers but make senior scientists know they’re being watched, scholar argues
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An early modern feminist
Liz Schafer explores why the work of the playwright Elizabeth Cary has been so marginalised
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China’s polite society
Austin Williams on eager-to-please students fired by a passion for knowledge
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6 June 2013
Full-time vocation - The university working week: from before sunrise to after sunset
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Nightmare before ‘Christmas Lecture’
Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title