Record windfall can't change UK postgrad tune
The University of Oxford has received a multi-million-pound gift for postgraduate humanities study aimed at the world's most promising scholars amid concern that public funding cuts could make such...
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UUK chief leaps to defence of post-1992s
Social prejudice is driving "reactionary" press attacks on post-1992 universities, the president of Universities UK has argued.
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An academic career? I'm not sure I fancy it
Vitae uncovers gap between PhD students' career aspirations and destinations. Paul Jump writes
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BIS official keen on foreign student 'flow'
Recent Home Office concessions over immigration rules have not eliminated the threat posed to the UK's research base, according to a senior official at the Department for Business, Innovation and...
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Learn lessons from underneath the Ivy League
The UK's higher education system must become "less precious" and emulate the "messier" half of the US model if it wants to succeed, a leading scholar has argued in an analysis of the policy errors...
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For a fast-track business route to Asia, go via campus
Universities offer essential access to Asian market, Dearing conference hears. Jack Grove reports
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The LSE is bigger than Gaddafi
Libya's rulers forgive and forget UK links with despot. David Matthews reports from Morocco
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News in brief
Working conditions9 to 5? Don't think soTeachers and lecturers are more likely to work unpaid overtime than workers in any other occupation, according to union figures. The data, released by the...
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Excellence - but those missing out don't see it that way
Germany's elite programme has some Länder up in arms. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Taking the plunge
Uclan's new overseas campuses are a bold but carefully planned part of its expansion, maintains Malcolm McVicar
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A mistaken conception that the university system is under attack
David Willetts defends the government's higher education policies against Stefan Collini's accusations of reductionist consumerism
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It takes all sorts
Universities must embrace diversity to better serve the needs of the nation and local communities, argues Eric Thomas
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Diary
CardiffA Provincial LifeFirst published (in censored form) in 1896, Anton Chekhov's story My Life: The Story of a Provincial is one of his longest and most openly political. At its heart is a...
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The Pick - WOW - Women of the World Festival 2012
WOW - Women of the World Festival 2012Southbank Centre, London, 6-11 MarchFrom the co-founder of Mumsnet to a woman determined to reform India's worst prison, by way of activists, astrophysicists,...
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'We know nothing' - QAA
"Hands off the Quality Assurance Agency."That was the robust response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the news that the QAA has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of 63 out of...