Best in show: more top dogs in degree pack
The number of students gaining first-class degrees has risen by almost 50 per cent over the past five years, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency have shown
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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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Mergers: who benefits?
One academic’s experience of coalescing institutions was not a positive one, largely owing to a lack of forethought or consideration
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Selling the dream
TV series dramatising the rise of department stores highlight a turning point in consumer culture, as entrepreneurs seduced female shoppers into becoming part of the bourgeois set
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17 January 2013
For better, for worse - The secrets of a successful merger
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Union steels itself for hostile future
UCU set for tough talk over resources and strategy, general secretary Sally Hunt tells Jack Grove
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THE podcast: 17 January 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanEditor John Gill and reporters David Matthews and Elizabeth Gibney join Chris Parr for this week’s THE podcast, to discuss some of the highlights from the latest issue of...
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Linguistically closed for business
Education is key to the development of modern civilisation. A malfunctioning university system in any of the world’s leading economies is thus of grave concern not only for the country in question,...
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Professorial chair to lead search for animal testing alternatives
Queen Mary, University of London, has created a professorial chair in animal replacement science.
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Staff submitted to REF likely to go above RAE total
The number of academics submitted to the research excellence framework is likely to exceed the number submitted to the last research assessment exercise, new figures suggest.
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Open access will cause problems for learned societies' journals, accepts Finch
The UK’s move towards open-access publishing will inevitably place some learned societies’ journals into financial jeopardy, according to the chair of the committee that recommended making the...
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INTO sells a quarter stake for £66 million
INTO University Partnerships, which co-owns international student centres with several universities, has sold a 25 per cent stake of its business to a private equity firm for £66 million.
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Ministers ease restrictions on recruitment following shortfall
The government has announced that it will ease over-recruitment fines for universities and not cut 5,000 places from their allocations, while calling for "restraint" on staff pay.
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Inside Higher Ed: Reacting to Aaron Swartz's suicide
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Graduate vacancies still below pre-recession levels, says report
The UK's top 100 degree-level employers recruited fewer graduates than expected in 2012, while expected increases in the number of vacancies this year will still leave recruitment figures 11 per cent...