Budget cuts could herald a price war for students
Sector leaders speculate that protection for unit of resource may be ending. Melanie Newman reports
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TVU scrutinising campus operations amid focus on local needs
Thames Valley University is considering the future of its operations in Slough and rethinking the courses it offers in Reading.Ian Tunbridge, TVU pro vice-chancellor, said: "It's no secret that we've...
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Bath Spa seeks top-down offers to volunteer for redundancy
Bath Spa University is to invite its senior management to volunteer for redundancy ahead of other staff in a cost-cutting drive.The vice-chancellor, Frank Morgan, told staff in a memo that the...
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Daytime TV: Intolerable cruelty
Gary Day on the injustice meted out to a whistleblower, medieval minds and meteorology
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Top nations in mathematics
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1998-31 December 2008
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A Don calling!
Our university has responded quickly to the news that more students are choosing institutions in their own locality so that they can save money by continuing to live at home.Last week saw the...
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An academic redoubt
Felipe Fernández-Armesto salutes the US military's intellectual proving ground
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers.
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Off Piste: Shredded bliss
Is it all over for the signature instrument that is the electric guitar? James Alexander reflects on past glories
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Leader: A personal level must be retained
An intimate learning relationship is much valued. UK universities cannot afford to lose it - despite the pressures of massification
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From where I sit - The mirror cracked
How is the global financial collapse changing the US higher education sector? Andrew Delbanco, director of American studies at Columbia University, offers a sobering answer in the current issue of...
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Sir Neil MacCormick, 1941-2009
Sir Neil MacCormick, world-renowned legal scholar and leading Scottish nationalist, has died.He was born on 7 May 1941 into one of Scotland's leading political families - his father, John, helped...
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Select Committee is effective and quorate
Although as your article "Burden of oversight grows as committee membership drops" (23 April) suggests, the select committee of which we are all members has a wide area to cover, and that we have...
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Far from measurable 1
In his response to my opinion piece on the Arts and Humanities Research Council, its chief executive, Philip Esler, restates the policies of Research Councils UK (cue theme tune of Yes, Minister),...
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Far from measurable 2
While critics of the attempt to measure the economic returns from research are correct in noting that there are benefits from research that may not be measurable by economic activity, economics is by...