The week in higher education
The appointment of Sir Alan Sugar, star of The Apprentice, as Gordon Brown's enterprise czar was grist to the mill for David Willetts, the Conservative Shadow Universities Minister. Addressing an...
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Plan eyes incentives to help the economy
Mandelson's talk of sector raising skills in key economic areas worries leaders. John Gill reports
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Masters for less than high-flyers
Business school says poor degree results are no bar to students applying for postgraduate study
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Hefce backs off citations in favour of peer review in REF
Research assessments in hard sciences will now be 'informed' by bibliometrics. Zoe Corbyn writes
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A levels are failing students, says think-tank
Universities should assume control of A levels because the qualification no longer requires candidates to think for themselves and fails to prepare future students for tertiary education.A report...
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Pinker leads international attack on UCL's 'unjust' treatment of scholar
Letter lends support to professor suspended over charges of insubordination. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Queen's Honours gives sector reasons to cheer
The head of the standards watchdog, Peter Williams, and the retired vice-chancellor of London South Bank University, Deian Hopkin, have been honoured by the Queen.Professor Hopkin, who is a member of...
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Deficit leads to plan to shut 16 courses
One London institution eyes job cuts, while others look at losses and pay. Rebecca Attwood writes
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Publisher 'threat' to open access
Elsevier approaches v-cs about taking repositories out of universities' hands. Zoe Corbyn reports
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News in brief
Stem subjectsProject to raise numbers kicks offA £20 million programme to raise the number of students graduating in science, technology, engineering and maths is to begin this summer. Details of the...
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Daytime TV: The personal touch
Gary Day is impressed by Barbara's sales technique but depressed by a less-than-funny satire
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No business like pork business
In a shock move, our vice-chancellor has transferred himself and all 250 members of our administrative staff to new offices within the Poppleton Pork Products factory.He told our reporter, Keith...
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Whose data is it anyway?
A PhD student's run-in with a senior researcher sets Tim Birkhead thinking
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Leader: A breath of fresh air on campus
Institutions and individuals across academia are embracing the green agenda. But it's still a long way to go to sustainability