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New ZealandFee increase bid rejectedThe head of the body that represents Maori higher education students in New Zealand has welcomed the government's decision to turn down a university's application...
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'Underlying calculation of Russell Group v-cs' (1 of 2)
The University and College Union research officer quoted in Times Higher Education last week deserves credit for publicising an open secret: that our "top" universities claim inflated student-to-...
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'Underlying calculation of Russell Group v-cs' (2 of 2)
The conundrum of academics who do not teach but who are counted statistically as doing so is surely easily solved in the era of multitasking. As academics potter around the archives or are deep in...
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Not in our name
Regarding "Words louder than action" (Letters, 6 December). In it, Chris Pearson, director of human resources at Queen Mary, University of London, welcomes the decision by the University and College...
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Off the beaten track
Nobel laureate Andre Geim criticises academics who spend their lives researching the same subjects that they addressed in their doctoral work ("Not monkeys, so why the peanuts?", News, 29 November)....
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Socc it to ya, ya big Mooc
THE correctly points to aspects of massive open online courses that UK universities could learn from ("This could be huge...", 6 December). For example, the development of "big data" models to better...
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Immeasurable outcomes (1 of 2)
While Frank Furedi outlines four compelling arguments against the use of learning outcomes in higher education ("The unhappiness principle", 29 November), it seems to me that another should be...
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Immeasurable outcomes (2 of 2)
The perverse use of learning outcomes as instruments of performance management is a classic example of the "bureaucratisation of good intentions", about which PA Consulting Group wrote in THE's pages...
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Solidarity, sisters
The continuing gender pay gap affecting female academic staff in UK universities and the disparities at the senior level are causes for concern ("Cycle of domination of top roles by men must be...
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Divine wisdom
The centuries-old debate about what makes a university a university, revived by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, Robert Gordon University's vice-chancellor, is indeed eternally relevant (THE Scholarly Web...
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Top 10 in research Down Under are world-beaters
Ten Australian universities are performing “above the world standard” for research, including four performing “well above” world standard, according to an evaluation of Australian research.
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Managers are extending reach into research
A managerial culture is growing in universities as they “position themselves to align more systematically with government and industrial sectors”, a conference has heard.
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The benefits of immigration on the lab: more papers and citations
Internationally diverse departments outperform others, study finds. David Matthews writes
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PhDs in industry aren't failures, says Blakemore
The perception among science, technology, engineering and maths PhD students that any career outside academia is akin to failure is denying industry access to high-quality, PhD-educated employees, a...
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Outside the triangle, it's not so golden
Regions could be hurt by research concentration, conference told. Elizabeth Gibney reports