Can Scotland carry on with its free-tuition policy?
It is written in stone that Scottish students will not pay fees, but Chris Havergal reports on worries that this stance is bad for access and sustainability
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Grant winners – 15 December 2016
A round-up of academics awarded research council funding
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Must Rhodes fall?
Buildings and statues dedicated to people whose views clash with modern values can cause difficulties, but is tearing down history the answer?
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Thoughts on life after higher education
When I retired, my life continued as before except that I was not teaching students (“What does retirement mean for academics?”, Features, 8 December). My regret was that I was leaving behind a...
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Turn and turn again
Grant Guilford, vice-chancellor of [!Victoria University!] of Wellington, is entitled to his views about the need for New Zealand to become a “creature of the Asia-Pacific”, but they are not...
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Let's get physical
We have known for a long time that libraries deliver value to researchers in ways that do not require them to visit our physical buildings (“Libraries ‘becoming invisible’ to junior scholars”, News,...
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How to act like a superstar scholar
Mark Readman offers a guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed
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The Higher Education and Research Bill: it’s a matter of trust
For the first time, says the UK’s universities minister Jo Johnson, academic freedom and institutional autonomy will be enshrined in UK law
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Universities need COOs, CFOs and other specialist senior managers
To help manage their expanding activities, institutions require new corporate leadership personnel, Sarah Shaw says
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Monumental questions about uncomfortable pasts
That students debate how to treat campus memorials to figures linked with unsavoury historical events is perhaps a fitting legacy
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Laurie Taylor – 15 December 2016
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