Strathclyde picks up coveted title on awards night
The University of Strathclyde has been named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards 2012.
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THE Awards 2012: winners announced
The Times Higher Education Awards 2012 are full of examples of the best of the best: the institutions, teams and individuals who have led the way at a time when leadership has been more essential...
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UKBA 'failed to act' over information on 150,000 students
More than 150,000 students who may have been staying in the UK illegally were not investigated by the UK Border Agency, according to a new report.
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News in brief
IsraelTwo-rate solutionAn Israeli university is charging overseas students rents that are almost double the amount paid by domestic students. Foreign students at Tel Aviv University pay nearly 2,400...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFollow-on FundAward winner: Stephen HutchingsInstitution: University of ManchesterValue: £115,733Comparative approaches to Islam, security and television news:...
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Join us in the big tent
The CDBU is a broad church that aims to represent all who care for higher education, Mary Margaret McCabe writes
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No argument, Vince - just coalition cant and puerile propaganda
Fred Inglis responds to the secretary of state for business' defence of the 'swift and absolute destruction of the idea of a university'
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Loud and clear
Researchers didn't hold back when EPSRC head Paul Golby asked for feedback on the council's workings. Things will improve, he vows
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News in brief
Business schoolsExcluded middle costs us dearBusiness schools are failing to help mid-sized companies as much as they could and thus are holding back the UK's economy and society, a study has...
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Guess who's coming to dinner?
Although our university failed to make the shortlist in any of the categories in this year's Times Higher Education Awards, as we go to press we learn that there may be a pleasant surprise in store...
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Truly comprehensive education on cards
The conversion of a higher education corporation into a company and group structure to accommodate overseas campuses and attract private investment does indeed present interesting options for the...
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Stars and martyrs
Mahesan Niranjan ("Star-spangled clangers", Letters, 22 November) criticises the current fashion among vice-chancellors to recruit "big hitters" so as to enhance their university's research...
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Sever the doctoral link
Regarding your coverage of the qualifications relevant for teaching in higher education ("Universal lesson to be learned" and "Proportion of academics with PhDs is 'low'", 1 November).The claim now...
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Data to end quota debate
There is an easy way to answer the objection raised by Toby Young in his debate with Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws at the Oxford Union recently that capping the proportion of privately educated...
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Market has spoken: so?
Can one be certain that someone who uses the phrase "interpersonal communication" knows what the humanities are about? ("Strategy for American humanities: blow them up and start again", Opinion, 8...