College leavers' hard road to final destination
Student leavers who complete full-time first degrees at a further education college in England are paid £4,000 a year less on average than their university counterparts and are at least 50 per cent...
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Boycott hopes to break up boys' club
Effort to halt male bias on event panels sparks controversy. Elizabeth Gibney and Paul Jump write
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Plagiarism problems on campus: where have I heard that before?
Essay-writing firm denies inconsistency in its director penning satirical novel. Paul Jump reports
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Social science is this year's theme for parks
Universities will this year start to build “social science parks” as a route to improving public services, according to a prediction published by Nesta, the foundation for innovation.Contributing to...
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Cambridge sets pace for gay-friendly places
The University of Cambridge has been named the UK’s most gay-friendly higher education institution.It was one of six universities to feature in the annual Top 100 Employers list compiled by the gay...
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Essay feedback in reel time
Lecturers’ live-to-camera marking of student work proves to be a low-budget hit, reports Chris Parr
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Major coup as US institutions enlist four-star leadership
Jon Marcus on military veterans trading drills and battlefields for disciplinary fields and fundraising
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UK loses its allure as visa rules deter Indian graduates
Post-study employment changes and a shrinking ‘expat premium’ prompt second thoughts about value of overseas study. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi
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Teaching intelligence - It is possible to avoid the negative mass effects
In the first of a series surveying research evidence about teaching and learning, Graham Gibbs considers the findings on large class sizes
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Not unanimous, but united
The UCU is a democratic, future-facing endeavour proud to fight for both the one and the many, Sally Hunt affirms
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The evidence option: hitting targets with practised precision
New Office for Fair Access strategies will help universities learn what works best in their efforts to reach ambitious goals, says Les Ebdon
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Meetings of minds or shotgun weddings?
Whether spurred by lofty research ambition or the prosaic hope that one can live more cheaply than two, universities’ urge to merge can bring cultural as well as organisational challenges, as recent...
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Globalisation and its discontents
Scholarship has long been international but the current vision of a ‘worldwide’ academy of rootless student-consumers and national economic competition is as contradictory as it is immoral, argues...
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The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories