Cut REF work: Check the best and sample the rest
RAE assessor suggests a way to reduce costs, save time and improve quality. Paul Jump reports
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#LoveHE: Making your own luck
Anshul Tomer, a successful actor and singer, is thankful for the life-changing experience of studying in Edinburgh
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Changing the timetable: Academic freedom or just plain annoying?
John Turner has given up trying to please everyone. Restricting the choices of a few is a necessary part of protecting the majority
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Top 20 Journals in Neuroscience and Behaviour
JournalPapersCitationsCitations Per Paper1Science714103,741145.302Nature69392,089132.883Nature Reviews Neuroscience72579,822110.104Nature Neuroscience2,039143,67970.475Neuron3,121213,65068.466Trends...
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12 August 2010
That Eighties feeling - Is higher education heading back into a darker age?
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Tara Brabazon: The Finns have got it right
Finland has recognised broadband access to the internet as essential to citizenship; Australia and others still lag unacceptably far behind, writes Tara Brabazon
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Obama: ‘education is the economic issue of our time’
Barack Obama has called on higher education institutions in the US to “retake the lead” in providing the best education the world has to offer.Speaking at the University of Texas at Austin on 9...
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Towards freedom, and more success
The past 10 years have seen their fair share of ups and downs for higher education in Ireland, but Ferdinand von Prondzynski, outgoing president of Dublin City University, leaves his post with more...
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Inside Higher Ed: Out presidents
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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‘Graduate tax’ could prompt brain drain, union warns
The cost of studying for the “key professions” would soar under proposals for graduate contributions tabled by the business secretary, Vince Cable, the main lecturers’ union claims.The University and...
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Is the Israeli academy facing a McCarthyite era?
Political interference could put freedom of speech in universities at stake, says Matthew Reisz
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Funding announced to lead the way to greener pastures
Eleven higher education institutions have been awarded government funding to conduct research into sustainability and energy use in the sector.The Higher Education Funding Council for England...
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Top 25 Asia-Pacific institutions in chemistry
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 2000-April 2010 Asia rankWorld rankInstitution Papers CitationsCitations per paper155 Pohang University of Science and...
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No thinkable alternative
Producing graduates who are critical thinkers requires teachers who can bring scholarship and leadership to the academy. It is vital that we find them, says Paul Ramsden
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Credit where it's overdue
It is a familiar lament: teaching excellence is doomed never to be rewarded as handsomely as research success - if at all. But some institutions are determined to tackle the pedagogical deficit....