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News in Brief
CanadaOnline institution goes offlineOne of the biggest names in private higher education is shutting its Canadian online university just two years after it began operations. The Apollo Group, the...
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From where we sit - Quality and inequality
After British higher education's autumn of discontent, neither the coalition government nor the sky has fallen. Yet the UK academy has changed fundamentally in the wake of confirmed spending cuts....
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Blogconfidential: Do blame yourself
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Do blame yourself
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Appointments
City University of New YorkCarole M. Berotte JosephAn alumnus of the City University of New York is returning to her alma mater to become president of Bronx Community College. Carole M. Berotte...
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Top nations in plant and animal sciences
Top Nations in Plant and Animal SciencesData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-August 2010 Country Papers CitationsImpact1 England30,347 390,092 12.852...
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Visa reforms a passport to disaster, sector warns
Academy unites in castigating coalition plans to tighten entry requirements. Hannah Fearn reports
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The 'Mickey Mouse' that roared: media studies takes on its critics
Manifesto project strives to defend subject and clarify its aims and impact. Matthew Reisz writes
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Managerial era 'threatens' academic freedom
There is a "vast" amount of litigation concerning academic freedom in the US, while in the UK there is "virtually none".Yet in the latter, according to Eric Barendt, emeritus professor of media law...
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Grant Winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment Programme• Award winner: Tjeerd van Staa• Institution: Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency• Value: £314,...
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Irrational numbers
John Hearn and Alan Robson urge universities to refocus on the reality of individual missions, not rankings' absurd lists
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Cutting foreign student visas is the wrong move at the wrong time
Politically driven plans to reduce access to UK higher education will seriously harm a £5bn-a-year success story, says Nicola Dandridge
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Sage concern
Managerialist attacks on the humanities must be resisted if public thinkers are to flourish in our universities, Peter Geoghegan argues
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Midlands mutuality breaks new ground
Birmingham and Nottingham join forces with 'collaborative framework'. John Morgan reports
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Spurned universities may appeal as ESRC concentrates doctoral cash
A research council's decision to restrict doctoral funding and accreditation to just 21 university consortia has been criticised, with rumours of possible legal action.The discontent may be a sign of...