A mantra for the next REF cycle? Keep calm and carry on
We must improve the system we already have, not make a switch to metrics, argues James Wilsdon
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Some assurance on assessments
As ministers and officials in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills assimilate different responses to the Green Paper, there are some overarching messages that emerged from the...
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To learn, not divide
Your graph “Relative earnings by educational attainment” (News, 14 January) showed that graduates with one degree in the UK earned, on average, 54 per cent more than people living here with A levels...
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Polar opposites
It is good to see that the sector is taking notice of some of the disquiet about the use of low participation neighbourhood data (“Higher education access inequality ‘wider than previously thought...
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On campus as in society, freedom of speech is not enough
Whether radicalisation or divestment is the issue, says Keith Burnett, talking without listening first doesn’t help to build a community
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Grant winners – 21 January 2016
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Journals and publishers setting sights on the unwary
This graph shows an explosion in the number of so-called predatory publishers and journals in the past five years
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There’s no satisfaction in seeing how biased we can be
We must be alert to unconscious bias at work across the sector and develop ways to tackle the issue to achieve greater diversity
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UUK social mobility group to advise David Cameron
Individuals’ choices of where and what to study ‘must reflect ambitions’ not ‘social background or where they live’, UUK says
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Sajid Javid cautious on plans for new UK science ministerial committee
Critics fear proposals for high-level body could risk politicising scientific decisions.
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David Cameron: scrapping grants allows move to uncap student numbers
PM claims numbers policy announced in 2013 relies on grants move announced in 2015