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Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham
Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham
Emma Rees shares her holiday diary from the dunes
Seven scholars from around the world give us their festive reflections on snakes, bad lobster and turkeys’ backsides
Andy Green weighs up the three main parties’ higher education policies and suggests his own solution to the funding question
Experienced sector figure to leave UUK post in September for powerful new regulator
Replacing England’s tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis
A recent wave of commentators have been disparaging universities and painting all who work in them as complicit in a fraud. Philip Cowan examines their case
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
University leaders dismayed by factual holes in the revived debate over tuition fees should respond with some broad brush strokes of their own, says Andy Westwood
Salary transparency can promote equality but also tends to foment jealousy and strife among academic staff, as Adrian Furnham has seen at first hand
But polling also finds balance of public opinion is against Labour policy and tuition fees rated low among voting priorities