Two-year sentences
Michael Gove is wrong, says Chris Hackley: a return to ‘traditional’ A levels will narrow access and do nothing to raise standards
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The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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UCU leaders back austerity plan
Staff costs may be slashed to plug budget hole
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This worthwhile piece on shit
Swiss poo paper comes up smelling of roses
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Parties shape manifesto promises on higher education
‘Freeing’ universities, tuition fees and possible graduate tax figure large as Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats craft policies
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‘Postgraduate premium’ fuels cycle of social inequality
Salary boost from master’s degree rises while profile of students narrows, says Sutton Trust report
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Leru pulls out of EU’s U-Multirank scheme
Group of leading universities has ‘serious concerns’ about new ranking project
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Imperial translation unit faces closure
Institution says students will be safe as it considers moving or closing specialist department
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QAA unveils new appraisal standards
But critics say plans to relax peer reviews in some universities will introduce risk-based quality assurance by another route
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RCUK takes open-access green targets off fast track
Policy continues to worry academics despite research councils’ concession
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High price of gold: How early career researchers will suffer
Early career researchers and other “poor” academics may be disadvantaged under the gold model of open access, evidence submitted to the Lords Science and Technology Committee has suggested.The...
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Students burned on re-entry to high fees world
Costs of failure increase for first years
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Obama: you must listen to this man
Leeds scholar’s calls for Cambodian reform backed by US president
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News in brief
RetrenchmentStation departuresA redundancy consultation is under way at the University Marine Biological Station Millport after the Higher Education Funding Council for England decided to end its...
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Do your duty
The sector must not let claims that application rates vindicate fees policy go unchallenged, says Liam Burns