Restructuring metrics could fail to add up
Queen Mary job cuts may lead to sliding standards and debased teaching. Paul Jump reports
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We're only unclogging the 'brain circulation' (1 of 2)
It is flattering that the chief executive of Universities UK has been so impressed by the "marketing" of Dutch universities in the UK that she has spent some of her valuable time writing about it in...
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AAB announcement imminent, as government reflects on ‘strong views’ in sector
David Willetts has said that he intends to let universities know “by the end of the month” whether the grade threshold at which university places are removed from the cap on numbers is to be lowered...
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Private equity firm buys degree-awarding powers
The charitable College of Law, one of only five private providers in the UK with degree-awarding powers, has been sold to a private for-profit firm.
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Degree premium on ice as graduate salaries are frozen
Graduate starting salaries are set to fall to their lowest real-terms level since 2003 this summer as 90 per cent of businesses freeze their offers to recruits, according to analysis released today.
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Inside Higher Ed: No longer afraid to consult
By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed
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Universities’ black and minority ethnic staff still encounter ‘significant disadvantage’
Efforts to promote race equality in higher education have petered out and had "little impact", a conference has heard.
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London Met v-c urged to apologise for alcohol comments
The president of London Metropolitan University students’ union has called for the vice-chancellor to apologise after he suggested the sale of alcohol should be banned from parts of the campus...
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Rammell to take over in Bedfordshire
The University of Bedfordshire has appointed Bill Rammell, formerly a higher education minister under Labour, as its new vice-chancellor.
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Oxbridge appeals to Osborne: allow donors to keep giving generously
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge have joined the campaign against a cap on tax relief for philanthropic donations amid fears that it could cost the sector millions of pounds.
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Surplus value
Hefce says that record levels of spare cash prepare the academy for the new fees regime, but as new policies for allocating student places bed in, we might need to reassess its future financial...
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College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be
Alan Ryan learns what the liberal-arts ideals of the US academy's founders can teach us today
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The Stalin Cult: A Study in the Alchemy of Power
Polly Jones is impressed by a rigorous iconography of one of the age of extremes' greatest tyrants
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Breaking into the Lab: Engineering Progress for Women in Science
Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard University, stirred up a storm in 2005 by suggesting that women are under-represented in science owing to "issues of intrinsic aptitude, and particularly...
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Keeper of the Nuclear Conscience: The Life and Work of Joseph Rotblat
When scientists attempt to play international politics, it usually ends in tears. The physicist Jo Rotblat, one of the first physicists to work on the Bomb, was one of the few to have bucked the...