UHI Millennium Institute gains full university status
The University of the Highlands and Islands has been awarded full university status, raising hopes that the remote region may retain more of its young people.
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Visa plans could spell disaster for UK, MPs hear
The UK government risks causing a collapse in international demand for study in the country similar to that experienced in Australia if it mishandles its policy on visas, a cross-party group of MPs...
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What’s normal for a given region?
The conversation has begun in earnest. Four months after the publication of the 2010-11 World University Rankings, Times Higher Education is now formally consulting on refinements for the 2011-12...
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Abertay Dundee v-c suspended
One of the UK’s longest-serving vice-chancellors and the convenor of Universities Scotland has been suspended from his job.
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Wolverhampton appoints new vice-chancellor
The University of Wolverhampton has appointed Geoff Layer as its new vice-chancellor.
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Consultation on visas may be unlawful, law firm says
The government’s consultation on changes to the student visa system could be unlawful, a law firm has said – and that could expose the coalition to expensive claims for damages.
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Rush to beat higher fees less frenzied than expected
University applications have risen in the final year before higher fees are introduced.
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Inside Higher Ed: Getting out of Egypt
By Sam Petulla, for Inside Higher Ed
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WikiLeaks: counting the costs and consequences
When Woodrow Wilson made his Fourteen Points address to the US Congress in January 1918, he called for “open covenants of peace, openly arrived at”.Setting out his programme for the post-war world,...
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Coordinated action on cards, UCU signals
Protests against education cuts are taking place in London and Manchester today as the main lecturers’ union signals that strikes in the academy could be coordinated with industrial action in other...
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Back basic science with cash, research elite tell EU
The League of European Research Universities has repeated its call for the European Union to make substantial long-term investments in basic research.
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Coalition ‘sleepwalking’ into teaching crisis
Applications to secondary teacher-training courses have collapsed, prompting fears of a recruitment crisis in the profession within five years.
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Bill gives ministers ‘free rein’ over interest rates on student loans
New legislation allowing the government to apply higher interest rates to student loans grants ministers “free rein” to raise charges in the future and gives no protection for those from poorer...
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Turning on the leading lights
Too few academics are putting themselves forward for the top jobs. Amanda Goodall argues that we must nurture talent, value achievement and pay more if we want to fill the empty chairs
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Novel forms of thought
In philosophy, logic is too often considered the only appropriate analytical instrument. Adding fiction to the toolkit can, Michael Boylan argues, offer new and illuminating ways to contemplate human...