Campus round-up
Royal Holloway, University of LondonWarm spots in the big chillResearchers may have come a step closer to understanding how life on Earth survived between 600 and 700 million years ago when the...
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An academic angle on issues in a periodical for the people
Online magazine aims to bridge gap between journals and journalism. Matthew Reisz writes
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College without leaving high school: a radical vision for higher delivery
Simon Baker hears a headteacher's plans to offer degree courses from her rural secondary school
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In Hong Kong, global aims need state aid
Report says the city's institutions require help to assert international strength. John Morgan writes
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Study shows XX factor effect on hiring committees
Including women on selection committees for senior professorial posts improves female candidates' chances of success, a study of academic appointments at Spanish universities has found.Selections for...
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News in brief
United StatesRepublican ire at for-profit reportRepublican congressmen have questioned a US government report that exposed recruiting fraud at for-profit higher education institutions. Darrell Issa...
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Blogconfidential: Behind closed doors
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: Behind closed doors
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Appointments
University of LeicesterVincenzo DenicolòAn Italian economist has joined the University of Leicester as a professor of economics. Vincenzo Denicolo studied at the University of Bologna and the...
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The elephant in the scheme
Stephen Cowley and Susan Cooper hope employers do not see pension reform solely as a cost-cutting opportunity
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A chance to break free of administrative and regulatory tyranny
The new funding regime may allow universities, led by a British 'Ivy League', to refocus on their missions, argues Peter Oppenheimer
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Blow away the confusion
Amid chill budgetary winds, institutions and students need clarity from the government about access and fees, Paul Marshall argues
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Grant winners
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCH• Award winner: Jill Clayton-Smith• Institution: Central Manchester University Hospital• Value: £124,917Learning disabilities: identifying the causes• Award winner: Guy...
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UCU in turmoil as its Left wing looks to make bid for control
Executive is split over support for fees protest, while officers threaten to strike, John Morgan writes
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Now that's research impact: 'paradigm-shifting' Browne drew on a single opinion survey
The review that sparked the government's transformation of higher education in England spent the "astonishingly low" sum of £68,000 on research - with nearly all of that going on an unpublished...
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Why those good intentions often go up in smoke
Assessing why some people stick to their new year's resolutions while others fail at the first whiff of chocolate may not be an exact science, but that has not stopped academics attempting to...