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NUBS ChinaCarl FeyFor many business scholars, their expertise derives from years of hard graft in the academy, but Carl Fey took a different route. The American academic, who has been appointed dean...
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Trust and simplify
MEP and academic Maria da Graça Carvalho outlines the EU's response to demands to streamline research funding bureaucracy
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The Week in Higher Education
More than 200,000 candidates missed out on a place at university this year. However, figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service also show successful applicants from the poorest...
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New model grants: fund the chosen few
Scientists sound creativity warning as councils look to concentrate cash. Paul Jump reports
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Global crackdown on immigration threatens to dam the knowledge flow
Political manoeuvring over immigration is set to stunt academic progress worldwide, governments have been warned.In the UK, the coalition administration plans to slash the number of students admitted...
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Two-front attack on 'new atheists'
Archbishop and Marxist challenge Dawkins et al's 'off-the-peg enlightenment'. Matthew Reisz writes
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UCU to consider strike over jobs and pensions
Lecturers are to be asked to move towards national strike action over jobs and pensions, amid mounting anger about cuts that could result in "the implosion of the entire sector".The University and...
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Show the sandals out, the suits will save you
Janet boss says that it is time for universities to call in the professionals. Simon Baker reports
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All change again at Gloucestershire as it hunts for another new head
V-c will need to deal with a governance review, debt and a damaging tribunal, writes Simon Baker
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Put anxiety aside for institution's sake, staff told
The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has outlined the scale of the financial challenge facing his institution, prompting fears of further job cuts and course closures.In a packed...
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Higher study's social benefits back case for state funding
Campaign for the recognition of value of education gathers pace. Rebecca Attwood and Phil Baty report
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Academics express 'profound consternation' at support-centre closures
More than 180 academics have signed a letter calling on the Higher Education Academy to reverse its decision to close its network of discipline-based teaching-support centres.The letter expresses "...
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Celtic cuts create states of anxiety
Delays over funding details leave Scots in dark as Welsh face competitive gap. Hannah Fearn writes
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Commoner chameleon
Reactions to Prince William's engagement, A.W. Purdue says, show just how far our social order has shifted
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Students, prepare your strategic campaign for the battle of the fees
Trying to make the Lib Dems keep their pre-election pledge on tuition should be just one tactic in the NUS' arsenal, recommends Ivor Gaber