18 October 2012
Risky diversion - Are UK universities’ overseas adventures a sure route to success?
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Research Intelligence - For answers, they may need some time
The head of a study of a subglacial Antarctic lake tells Elizabeth Gibney of the need for the long view
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Duncan Wu admires (with some caveats) a synecdochal exploration of family, loss and the end times’ bitter waters
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International students like to be where someone knows their name
Family ties are a big influence on which location people choose for study. Julie Hare reports
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The week in higher education
• A Guardian feature on the Conservative Party conference trumpeted the "return of the Nasty Party" on 11 October. One anonymous delegate told the newspaper that he might leave the party over David...
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Odds and quads
Credit: UCL/Grant Museum of Zoology/Matt ClaytonThis jar of moles is one of the most popular items owned by University College London's Grant Museum of Zoology and took pride of place near the...
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'What can you do? We are just the puppets'
As the first undergraduates subject to England’s new higher fees regime acclimatise to campus life, Chris Parr talks to freshers across the capital about their reasons for going to university, how...
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UEL staff set to strike over workload changes
Lecturers at the University of East London are set to hold a one-day strike in a row over proposed changes to staff workloads.
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Hundreds of overseas students do not return to London Met
Fewer than 45 per cent of continuing overseas students at London Metropolitan University have committed to stay with the troubled institution, given the choice of staying or transferring elsewhere.
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Chairman of ABS attacks STEM "tyranny"
The chairman of the Association of Business Schools has attacked the "misplaced tyranny" that science, technology, engineering and maths subjects have in policymaking circles and argued that...
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Two US academics win economics Nobel
Two American academics have won the Nobel Prize in economics for work that has led to more efficient ways of matching doctors with hospitals and organ donors with transplant patients.
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Inside Higher Ed: Disappearing Liberal Arts Colleges
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Painful conditionality
"Organisational effectiveness is not viewed as simply foregrounding cost savings, but instead a much more complex interplay of influences and drivers that facilitate opportunities for enhancing the...
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UK viewed as safest place to study, says report
Despite the riots that swept English cities in August 2011, the UK is seen as the safest place to study by international students, according to a new British Council report.
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UCU decides against industrial action over pay
University lecturers will not join industrial action later this month over a 1 per cent pay offer after members voted against a strike.