Graduate earnings premium ‘may fall’ with further HE expansion
Institute for Fiscal Studies says firms’ ability to accommodate more highly educated workers may be coming to an end
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University income from firms grows as public spending stagnates
Knowledge exchange income is up to £4.2 billion, while university spin-offs and start-ups also posted strong growth
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Ucas mulls major changes to clearing
Admissions experts recommend making it easier for students to change their mind once they have received their A-level results
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What are you reading? – 18 August 2016
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education – 18 August 2016
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Everyday Stories, by Rachel Bowlby
This study reminds us of the radicalism of bringing the quotidian into art, writes Shahidha Bari
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Fumo: Italy’s Love Affair with the Cigarette, by Carl Ipsen
R. J. B. Bosworth traces the state’s long involvement in the production and sale of tobacco to its citizens
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Distant and discontent: the downsides of digital learning
Despite many advances, online programmes suffer from technical faults and a dispiriting lack of interaction, as two scholars found
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International and postgraduate fees survey, 2016
Post-Brexit, will EU students still see English HE as value for money, and what are the pros and cons of charging them international fees?
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Why academics should make time for social media
Andy Miah, chair in science communication and future media at the University of Salford, on why academics should maintain their online presence
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The Olympics are here: let’s sing the body electric
The Games remind cerebral sorts that the brain resides in an amazing physical vessel, Shahidha Bari writes
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Carry on researching
There is a bit of “don’t question our behaviour, trust us” to the proposals in the Stern review and the recommendations about non-portability (“Stern might change the rules, but the REF game is still...
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Summer what?
Reading the feature on the summer habits of academics, I thought that it must be nice to be an academic able to work at home or at the beach and go on (genetic material sharing opportunity)...