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The results of the research excellence framework reveal that 52,061 full-time equivalent academic staff in 154 UK higher education institutions submitted 191,150 research outputs and 6,975 impact...
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Are we not human?
I have long struggled to establish anthropology as a subject to be taught outside the university setting, particularly as an A-level subject in schools.Anthropology, as the philosopher Immanuel Kant...
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Language isn’t the problem
The debate about inadequate English language proficiency often focuses on the wrong issues (“Scholars highlight inadequate language skills”, News, 5 February). We should instead focus on how...
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Drawing a blank
I was deeply offended by the blank space on the back page of Times Higher Education (“The Poppletonian”, 12 February). I don’t pay good money just to receive a blank space.Charlie OwenUCL Institute...
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Nature to allow double-blind peer review
Journal’s decision follows trial that found ‘no effect’ on quality of reviews, writes Holly Else
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English universities ‘over-reliant’ on Chinese postgraduates
The number of Chinese students enrolling on full-time taught master’s courses in England has grown to all but match the number of home students.
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Mental Health Day helps students share experiences
More than 50 higher education institutions are taking part in University Mental Health Day today.
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Blog: Lessons for Limpopo
A project at the University of Warwick is aiming to tackle huge challenges crippling South African schools, writes Laura Jackson
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UK students to apply to European universities via Ucas
UK students may soon be able to apply to universities in continental Europe through Ucas after the admissions body changed its rules
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Hutton: cut fees to £3K for poorest
Students from poor families should pay tuition fees of only £3,000 a year, according to the chair of the Independent Commission on Fees
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Digital skills crisis looming, peers warn
A UK shortage of digital skills has reached a “tipping point” and universities are not doing enough to address the crisis, a House of Lords report warns
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Trebling of fees had 'no major impact' on student mental health
A study has found no evidence that higher tuition fees affect student mental health in the long term
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Scott Walker: US presidential hopeful and 'antagonist of the academy'
By Paul Fain, for Inside Higher Ed
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Obama college rating plans ‘should be ditched’
An organisation with more than 200 US university members has formally urged the federal government to ditch plans for a college ratings system
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Former Oxford v-c ‘senior adviser’ to new Hereford university
A proposed new “world-class” university for Hereford will focus on engineering and has former Oxford vice-chancellor Sir John Hood as senior adviser