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Queen Mary, University of LondonTim BaleA newly appointed professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London said it was a difficult decision to leave his post at the University of Sussex but...
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It's a jungle out there
Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi on the challenges facing Western institutions seeking to gain a foothold in India
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Conduct: becoming
As a long career closes, Steven Schwartz is eager to discover what lies ahead
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Long-term forecast: grey will go, leaving clear sky between elite and rest
Research will be focused in just 25 universities by 2025 as the UK sector becomes increasingly stratified, higher education experts have predicted.
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Economy may stall if country coasts on past postgraduate success
UK’s future prosperity ‘relies on boosting the quality of master’s and PhD research’. Paul Jump reports
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All or nothing: are vivas behind the times?
The system of examination for PhDs in the UK is a “scandal”, a conference on postgraduate issues heard last week.
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Found guilty until proven innocent over unapproved research claims
Professor says he was suspended by Sheffield for mentioning a touchy subject. Paul Jump writes
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Fearless symmetries
Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other’s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes
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Reports of the West's demise and East's rise are greatly exaggerated
The THE World University Rankings do not signal a power shift, but rather show just how far Asia still has to go, Michael Cox argues
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Leader: A cloud of uncertainty over ABB
With so little hard data about, the decision on taking more places out of the numbers cap is tough. It might all come down to cost
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From Where I Sit - Cents and sensibility
Right outside Sather Gate at the University of California, Berkeley, student activists are canvassing and urging their fellow students to "Register and Vote!" I don't know for sure whether they are...
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25 October 2012
Steady nerves required - The tricky business of establishing a foreign outpost in India
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Research Intelligence - Measured weights and measures
Australia's new funding chief aims for open access and a pragmatic, flexible ERA. Paul Jump reports