Ucas head vetoes A-level bonuses
Curnock Cook calls Willetts' proposed premium for some subjects 'unworkable', writes Jack Grove
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Get a job or get (some of) your fees refunded
Undergraduates studying at a private business school have been offered a partial refund of their tuition fees if they fail to land a job within six months of graduation.
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Heat treatment aims to keep ancients alive
Celebrity support is building behind the fight to save a Classics course. Jack Grove reports
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News in brief
Women's careersEquality efforts rewardedTen higher education institutions and science, engineering and technology departments have been commended for their work to support the careers of women. The...
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Get off your high horse
Academics should back a case-study approach to impact in the REF or risk getting far worse, says Claire Donovan
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The appraisal malaise
Dennis Tourish passes judgement on a system that invariably fails to give a clear picture of how well people are doing their jobs
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Agent of change
John Bull is riveted as David Hare maps out the tense, ambiguous territory between political expediency and personal integrity
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Diary
LiverpoolCostume Drama: Fashion from 1790 to 1850Sudley House, a grand Victorian merchant's residence, makes the perfect setting for an exhibition on the development of men's and women's fashion at a...
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The Pick - Voewood Festival
Credit: GettyThe Dandy Highwayman: Stuart Goddard, also known as Adam AntVoewood FestivalHigh Kelling, NorfolkVoewood, later known as Home Place, is a celebrated Arts and Crafts residence built...
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Home thoughts from abroad
Evidence that phone hacking may now be endemic on our campus is provided by this recently released transcript of a relatively intimate conversation between Professor Lapping of the Department of...
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High-profile titles lead the field in number of retractions
Analysis reveals higher rates of withdrawn research papers for top science journals. Paul Jump reports
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Leader: In a terrible state o' chassis
A United Kingdom? Not where tuition fees are concerned - and the divergent regimes are causing increasing strains
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Congratulations to us on our fine RAE results, staff and, er, students
Degree ceremonies have become shameless branding exercises in which graduates are mere afterthoughts, laments Susan Bassnett
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Research intelligence - Breaking through the glass ceiling
A new initiative aims to tackle the 'leaky pipeline' for women in UK science, reports Nicola Davis
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The week in higher education
• Another year brought another improvement in the A-level pass rate, which reached 97.8 per cent, up from 97.6 per cent in 2010. Just as predictable was the flood of advice that followed on what...