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WELLCOME TRUST AND THE ENGINEERING AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILA total of £41 million has been awarded to four new UK centres of excellence in medical engineering in a joint funding scheme...
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Joined-up public sector data should be on offer in the information age and Nigel Shadbolt plans to show the way
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Appointments
The pro vice-chancellor and chief executive of University Campus Suffolk has announced his retirement. Bob Anderson, who has been in the post since January 2006, has steered the institution from its...
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Diversity a key strength, says UUK's next head
The diversity of Britain's higher education sector is one of its greatest strengths, the incoming chief executive of Universities UK has said.Speaking to Times Higher Education, Nicola Dandridge, who...
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Visa regime hurts UK as study destination
Rocketing refusal rates put off international cohort, seminar hears. Rebecca Attwood reports
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'Sandpits' bring out worst in 'infantilised' researchers
Scholars say interdisciplinary workshops feel like a reality-TV race for cash. Zoë Corbyn writes
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'Learning how to learn' vital for student survival
"Learning how to learn" is the single most important teaching objective for universities as they prepare students for a 21st-century version of Darwin's survival of the fittest, a conference has...
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Strikes on cards as retrenchment worsens
Industrial action is being threatened at a number of universities as cutbacks continue.Staff at Thames Valley University have warned that they might strike in response to redundancy plans for its...
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Welcome words, but scholars want action
David Lammy praises the humanities, but sector wants more than rhetoric, writes Rebecca Attwood
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News in brief
Select committeesThumbs down to Chief EngineerThe Government has rejected MPs' calls for the appointment of an overarching government chief engineer or chief engineering advisers within departments....
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Market values dominate sector
Report says new universities are constrained by the priorities of business, writes Melanie Newman
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Right where it belongs
Being part of BIS means science is now at the epicentre of Whitehall and government policy, says Lord Drayson
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With students taught too well and too little, true learning withers
Academics can't agree on the function of grades or stop their rise - perhaps we'd all be better off without them, says John Summers
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The week in higher education
Tennis ace Maria Sharapova's early exit from Wimbledon was a blow to her fans, but was something more sinister than a lack of form to blame? The Russian beauty, who was knocked out on day three,...
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Edict curtailing freedom to work at home 'appals' staff
Lecturers should be on campus for community and students, university says. Rebecca Attwood reports