The FoI burden - there are no easy answers
Paul Gibbons says lack of time, money and legal clarity can all affect universities’ responses to FoI Act requests
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Productive head drives others to raise their game
Quality of papers rises in units led by strong researchers, study claims
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Q&A with Nick Hillman
We speak to the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute
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Goodbye to All That? The Story of Europe since 1945, by Dan Stone
Post-war history from East and West perspectives creates vivid impressions for Roger Morgan
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No retreating to Little England
I was an early reader. Let me be precise: I was an early reader of the Treaty of Rome. It was the 1960s and I was in my first job. I was told to write a paper on the policy implications of the Treaty...
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A third of staff would like to leave, THE survey finds
Inaugural THE Best University Workplace Survey reveals discontent and fears over security of employment
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30 January 2014
The Best University Workplace 2014
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The week in higher education - 30 January 2014
A business student is hoping to clear debts of $31,000 (£18,700) by selling advertising on his graduation mortar board, Fox News reported on 21 January. Alex Benda, who will graduate from the...
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Will it be Heigh-ho! or Oh no!
It’s off to work we go. Our Best University Workplace Survey reveals discontent, but it’s not all gloom and doom
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For how long do research papers remain useful?
Academic research papers remain useful for several years after publication, according to a study of more than 2,800 journal articles
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Lack of funding for master’s creates PhD paradox
Research councils may have to ‘rethink’ requirements because of cuts to lower-level courses
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Edinburgh Napier scraps plan for Hong Kong campus
Queen’s Hill project cancelled after change in attitude towards overseas university branches
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News in brief - 30 January 2014
University of GlasgowWhistleblower joins rector raceEdward Snowden is standing as a candidate to be rector of the University of Glasgow. The whistleblower, who leaked documents revealing US and UK...
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University of Montreal cancels Wiley-Blackwell deal subscription
Cost-conscious institution rejects publisher’s ‘big deal’ on more than 1,000 journals
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Transplant inspires siblings’ Bloodlines project
Milton and Alex Mermikides’ AHRC-funded work fuses music, dance and medicine