Leader: Instability narrows horizons
Institutions need secure positions and income to plan and do good work; the same is true of individual scholars
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Odds and quads
This stained-glass triptych of saints, including St Agnes and St Hilda, has been restored to its original splendour in the former chapel of what is now the University of Chichester.
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Analysis of poverty is poor (2 of 2)
Howard Davies' astute comments on the REF's corrosive effects on the quality of academic writing remind me of Flannery O'Connor's observation: "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the universities...
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Elite mission front
Regarding "Russell Group 'a more natural fit' " (15 March). There is surely only one word for the universities that have left the 1994 Group: splitters.Keith Flett, London
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Budget package holds £100m for research
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced investment worth £100 million for universities in a bid to boost private-sector investment in research.
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A quarter of students expect more contact time
Almost one-quarter of students in the UK receive less lecture time than they thought they would get before they started university, a new report has revealed.
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Taking students out of immigration tally would be ‘nonsense’
Removing international students from official immigration figures would reduce government statistics to “nonsense”, the head of a migration pressure group has claimed.
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Record donation to King’s College law school
King’s College London has received the largest donation from an individual in its history - a £20 million gift for its School of Law.
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Warwick and Queen Mary collaborate on teaching and research
The University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London, could share lecturers as part of a new programme of research and outreach collaboration.
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Inside Higher Ed: Unlikely Shelter
Arab uprisings push US students from Egypt to Lebanon
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Cardiff Met students say ‘no’ to merger
Students at Cardiff Metropolitan University have voted against plans to merge the institution with the University of Wales, Newport and the University of Glamorgan.
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Call for more university research on impact of design
The need for further “university-led research” to track the contribution of design to UK businesses and the economy came up for debate at a forum organised by the Design Council last week.
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‘Apocalypse’ row: scientists attack European Commission over Fukushima overreaction
A group of scientists involved in public discussions about nuclear power have written an open letter to David Willetts protesting about the European commissioner for energy’s “bizarre” talk of an...
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Archbishop to take on Cambridge college role
The Archbishop of Canterbury is to step down at the end of the year to become the head of a University of Cambridge college, it has been announced.
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Million+ attacks government Dux scheme
A government scheme to reward top state-school pupils with a visit to a Russell Group university has been branded “tokenism” by a university mission group.