Rally round the ring fence - the budget battle is not over
Sector prepares to repel raids on research budgets as spending review looms. Paul Jump writes
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Collegiate Million+ leader seeks to tap potential and stimulate economy
For Patrick McGhee, appointed last week as chair of the Million+ group of new universities, widening participation boils down to some fundamental principles about society.The University of East...
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UUK chief denies backing private Fair fees scheme
The president of Universities UK floated proposals for uncapped tuition fees to be paid by private investors in return for a proportion of a graduate's salary, it has emerged.
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Willetts pledges partial grant to encourage overseas study
Minister keen to improve global mobility ranking, but students will face costs. Matthew Reisz writes
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'Univer-cities' told to learn some home truths
Although universities are in an excellent position to drive economic growth in their regions, too few institutions see it as a priority, according to a thinktank.The Tony Rich Lecture and Debate,...
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Signs of the Times
A dozen of the huge LED advertising screens in New York's Times Square are coordinating for the first time to bring video art created by an academic at the University for the Creative Arts to...
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Disgruntled ex-lecturer and his muse show stomach for a fight
Sarah Cunnane on the former Kingston employee taking terpsichorean aim at a 'circle of corruption'
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Bottoms up!
"Hands off our northeastern Scottish colleagues."That was the vigorous response of Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, to all those critics who have lined up to attack the...
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Simon Roodhouse, 1948-2012
A leading authority on work-based learning and the creative industries, who aimed to "break down some of the closed-shop attitudes of universities", has died.Simon Roodhouse was born in the...
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Alternative medicine and its discontents (1 of 2)
Regarding "Aberdeen looks to feather its nest in a field dubbed 'pure quackery' " (News, 26 April): I am alarmed by this article for five good reasons.First, it seems to misrepresent the long and...
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Alternative medicine and its discontents (2 of 2)
As a 1960s Aberdeen science graduate, I am appalled by the university's reported plans for a chair in "a field dubbed 'pure quackery' ". If this is the sort of pseudoscience our funds might support,...
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You can be too careful
In a surprisingly hysterical article from the director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Julian Savulescu claims that synthetic biology "introduces new jokers into the pack" so that...
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Continuity error
The College of Law deal marks the second sale of a UK higher education entity with temporary degree-awarding powers to an overseas owner ("College of Law sale sets legal precedent for raising of...
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Solution, but no problem
Unless it can be demonstrated that there is a serious problem to be tackled that would be solved by the issuing of a "concordat", there is no justification for or point to it ("Punishment doesn't fit...
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Free, at last
The currently available open-access publishing options seem no better than the traditional publishers that, as Srila Roy writes, "are getting fat on the unpaid labour of researchers" ("Cracked...