Haggling over the cost of gold (1 of 2)
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Haggling over the cost of gold (2 of 2)
I fear that if we move to the gold open-access model, it will be disproportionately harmful to researchers outside large groups and to more junior members of staff who are less able to afford the...
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Sabine MacCormack, 1941-2012
A historian of "exuberant energies", equally at home in the worlds of ancient Rome and colonial Latin America, has died.Sabine MacCormack was born in Frankfurt on 24 February 1941 and studied...
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Campus round-up
Uclan/Manchester MetropolitanUdderly uniqueArchaeology students have excavated an example of a woman buried with a cow. The students from the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester...
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Grand fee paid for each foreign student
THE investigation shows almost £60m spent on agents’ commissions. David Matthews reports
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Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) results, 2008
As the findings of the final research assessment exercise are released, Times Higher Education has devised tables of excellence to rank institutions according to their subject successes and their...
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Metrics critic's marching orders
Queen Mary makes Fanis Missirlis, persistent thorn in management’s side, redundant
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Willetts praises UK’s role in search for Higgs boson
The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a “breakthrough in world science”, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.
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Graduate pay perks up, but positions are still scarce
The average starting salary in graduate-level jobs has increased by 6 per cent to £26,500 a year, according to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
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Access is still a game where post-92s beat Russell Group
Students at new universities are almost twice as likely to get a full student grant as their peers at Russell Group institutions, figures show.
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Eastwood to be next Russell Group chair
University of Birmingham vice-chancellor David Eastwood has been selected as the new chair of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities.
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MBA applications hit by visa changes
Applications by international students to study MBAs in the UK have been hit by unwelcoming government changes to visa policies, according to a survey from the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
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Welsh reforms aim to hand HEFCW more power on quality
The Welsh funding council will assess how the quality of higher education in the country’s universities can be improved in changes to its powers outlined in a White Paper released by the Cardiff...
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Advert for unpaid research position withdrawn
The University of Birmingham has withdrawn a job advertisement for an “honorary” unpaid research assistant after critics claimed the position was exploitative.