MPs' report accuses DIUS of failing to find its feet
Concerns raised about finances and direction, writes Rebecca Attwood
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High Court rules students should have gone to OIA
The High Court has criticised two students for turning to the courts with cases against their universities last year instead of using the Office for the Independent Adjudicator (OIA).Proceedings...
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UK's alumni donor numbers stay static
Institutions made more money in 2006-07, but fewer than one in 50 ex-students donates. John Gill reports
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Wikipedia founder's scholarly web venture plays host to a war of words
Site founder Larry Sanger denies academic's claims of slow development and infighting, writes John Gill
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New awards will honour sector's leadership
The judging panel has been unveiled for the inaugural Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards, run in association with the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. The awards...
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Daytime TV: Food for thought
Gary Day contemplates poverty, teenage pregnancy, the lives of elephants and unusual butchery
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Hot papers in clinical medicine
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, 2006-08
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Health and safety in the workplace: New rules affecting employers and employees
According to figures published by the Health and Safety Executive, the main prosecuting body for health and safety breaches, 229 people were killed at work in the UK during 2007-08, with the health...
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22 January 2009
Fighting talk - Europe is muscling in on the lucrative market for higher education in English
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Eyes open, mouth shut
Close and unobtrusive observations can reveal more to the open-minded researcher than focus groups and surveys, says Tara Brabazon
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‘I watch breathless as the 44th President of America takes his oath…but I shiver, and it’s not just the arctic wind’
Duncan Wu takes a British view of Obama Day
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UEA vice-chancellor to take early retirement
The vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia, Bill Macmillan, is to take early retirement at the end of the summer term.
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Bullied Blogger: An uninvited guest
15 January: I decided to get into work a little later than usual today and when I got in I was convinced that someone had been in my office as several files were out of place and a few books were...
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Universities await signs of Obama’s intentions
As the President is sworn in, academics listen closely for hints as to how he may help them. Jon Marcus reports