Drag and drop to create a top-scoring 'dream team'
A new tool allows managers to assess and build on research groups’ performance. Paul Jump reports
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24 March 2011
Heads up - Vice-chancellors’ education and pay revealed
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Budget 2011: Osborne’s bank raid benefits science
A £100 million cash injection for four research campuses has been announced in today’s Budget.
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New body mooted to take reins of Welsh academy
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales could be scrapped and replaced by a new body holding full powers to govern Welsh universities under proposals welcomed by Leighton Andrews, Wales’...
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Tara Brabazon: Expectations should be high – for academics as well as students
Through all the talk of learning outcomes, summative and formative assessment, quality assurance and global rankings, a silent fear hangs in the air of lecture theatres, tutorial rooms and...
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Home secretary unveils visa changes
Controversial measures to restrict student visas have been announced by the government.
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Scottish students propose ways to close funding gap
Students in Scotland have proposed measures to address a potential funding gap between Scottish and English universities. By James Titcomb
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Inside Higher Ed: MIT again reviews status of women
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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London Met aims low on fees
London Metropolitan University is to charge under £6,000 a year for many courses in 2012, bucking the trend set by other institutions that have rushed to charge £9,000 a year.
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UK universities attract more donors despite reduced income in 2009-10
Charitable income to higher education has dropped as the full effects of the economic downturn on university fundraising become clear.
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Stylish figures: Italian database offers cutting-edge graduate information
Boundaries between national educational, professional and technical labour markets in Europe are becoming more permeable, according to Kate Purcell of the University of Warwick’s Institute for...
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Six for nine: Surrey joins institutions charging £9,000 fees
The University of Surrey has become the latest English higher education institution to propose setting an undergraduate tuition fee of £9,000 a year for 2012-13.
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Judith Rees announced as LSE interim director
The London School of Economics has appointed an interim director following the resignation of Sir Howard Davies over the school’s links with the Libyan regime.
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Keele’s philosophers stare into the abyss
Keele University is planning to shut down its philosophy department, a move critics describe as an “emblematic loss” that would damage the institution’s credibility.
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Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius
Deborah Longworth looks behind the Facade at the private life of a writer whose words mattered