European universities compete with US in Arts and Humanities
The 2015-16 Times Higher Education university ranking for arts and humanities subjects shows European universities rising the ranks to compete with US top dogs.
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University of Leicester launches Department of Transtemporal Studies
Queen’s University Belfast and University of Sheffield also enter into the spirit of ‘Back to the Future Day’
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The prestige that attracts Chinese students to the UK is at risk
The UK’s strong higher education reputation has not been achieved by current policies, says Toby Miller
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UK university leaders lavish praise on Xi Jinping
As China's president visits the UK, heads of UCL, LSE and the Royal Society all warm to his slogan "the Chinese Dream"
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AC Grayling: why New College of the Humanities teamed up with Southampton Solent
Chris Parr reports as the philosopher talks of big plans for his fledgling institution
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Cut university budgets to fund FE? Skills education belongs in both
Policy Exchange’s report shows that damaging stereotypes of HE and FE persist, writes Joy Carter
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NUS ‘deeply disappointed’ by UUK stance on Osborne loan freeze
V-cs fail to oppose repayment threshold plan attacked as ‘unfair retrospective change’ by GuildHE
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University staff in line for 1 per cent pay increase
Above-inflation deal for university staff still lags behind pay increases seen elsewhere in the UK this year
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Subject Ranking 2015-2016: Arts and humanities methodology
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015-2016 arts and humanities subject ranking includes a wide range of narrower subject areas. The full list of arts and humanities subjects used...
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Papers in economics ‘not reproducible’
Fears that discipline is particularly susceptible to statistical ‘hacking’ of data to gain a positive result
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Students in armed service units ‘much more likely to be privately educated’
Researchers warn that benefits of enrolling in Officer Training Corps could be limited to ‘elite’
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Wellcome Trust to fund more long-term projects to counter ‘pressure to publish’
Director Jeremy Farrar argues that current research culture damages scientists’ ability ‘to dream’
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UK government plans to release data about graduate earnings
Insights into earning prospects after attending a UK university could soon be available to the public, if universities agree to the government project.
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Russell Group access: poorest fall further behind
Only 5 per cent of school leavers who are eligible for free school meals gain places at Russell Group institutions
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UK universities are already China’s best partners in the West
It is no surprise that universities and science are high on the agenda for Chinese president Xi Jinping’s state visit to the UK this week, says Alice Gast