Silence is deadly
In the face of coalition cuts and reform, v-cs' appeasement strategy isn't working. Time to speak up, says Aeron Davis
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Gove's prejudices are no basis for the future of UK teacher training
James Williams argues that the education secretary's 'look-and-learn' model will create a generation of pedagogues who are faking it
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Saga touts
Post-Browne, universities can still come up trumps. How? By recruiting pensioners, explain Alasdair Smith and Iain Smith
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Shining stars
The University of York took the top prize at the Times Higher Education Awards 2010, picking up the title of University of the Year. A total of 18 awards were handed out at the ceremony at the...
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Field rankings for France
Field rankings for FranceData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-August 2010 Field Papers CitationsCitations per paperWorld average % +/–...
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2 December 2010
Can you see the big picture? - The problems multidisciplinary research poses for peer review
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Tara Brabazon: The invisible support network
Librarians remain an often unseen and unappreciated element of good teaching and research. Tara Brabazon interviews an extraordinary one about the challenges the profession faces at the front line of...
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Wales shields its students from higher fees
Students from Wales will be spared additional costs of higher education wherever they study in the UK despite confirmation that Welsh universities will be allowed to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a...
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Labour loses White Paper vote
MPs have rejected Labour calls for the publication of a higher education White Paper before the parliamentary vote on tuition fees, as the opposition accused the coalition government of wanting the...
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Student finance reforms would leave more than 60% of graduates poorer, says Million+ report
More than 60 per cent of graduates will be poorer across their lifetimes if government reforms to student finance are voted through, according to new analysis.
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Seeking volunteers: scholars urged to take pay freeze to aid Scottish academy
Academics in Scotland should accept a voluntary pay freeze to help shore up the sector’s finances and prevent a decline in course quality, a scholar has argued.
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Weinberg to take the reins at Kingston
Kingston University has named its new vice-chancellor.
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Should lecturers leave unruly classes?
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
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Friends in need: the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and Scholars at Risk help to rebuild lives
“Not much to celebrate at the moment in Baghdad,” May Witwit emailed Bee Rowlatt on 7 December 2006. “A threat has reached university teachers and students…warning them to stop attending lectures or...
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Hefce head denounces likely loss of arts teaching funding
The man in charge of allocating funding to England’s universities has said he would not be “comfortable” living and working in a country that did not provide teaching funding for arts and humanities...