Tara Brabazon: Written evidence of the workings of the mind
Students could vastly improve their assignments, and marks, if they followed a few important rules. Tara Brabazon offers a 20-point checklist
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Northern Ireland fees may jump to £5,750 in post-Browne U-turn
Students in Northern Ireland could face tuition fees of up to £5,750 a year after a U-turn by a government advisor in the wake of England’s Browne Review.
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Support for reputation measure; respondent profiles boost confidence
The use of reputation surveys in university rankings is controversial. Many do not like the combination of subjective information with objective data and there are concerns that reputation surveys...
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Set Cambridge tuition at £9,000 with discount for poorest students, internal report advises
Tuition fee levels at the University of Cambridge should be set at £9,000 from 2012-13, but students from the poorest backgrounds should be given a £3,000 discount, according to a draft report seen...
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Inside Higher Ed: After Egypt
By Sam Petulla, for Inside Higher Ed
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Shared IT provision promises major savings
Universities will be able to save large sums on their IT provision after an investment of £12.5 million in “cloud computing” by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
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Problems solved: Bahrain Polytechnic’s practical approach
It took a challenging and very special project to tempt John Scott, the former chief executive of the Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology, out of semi-retirement in his native New...
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UCU strike ballots delayed after typographical slip
Ballots for national strikes in higher education have been delayed after a union included a typographical error in the formal notice sent to universities.
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Cumbria chooses new v-c
The University of Cumbria has appointed a new vice-chancellor, following a period of turmoil in its leadership and finances.
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Guide to elite entry warns against ‘soft’ A levels
The Russell Group of large research-intensive universities has for the first time published a guide with advice on what A levels its institutions favour, suggesting that students should avoid more...
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UWE staff set to strike over jobs proposals
Union members at the University of the West of England are to strike over plans to cut jobs and make academics reapply for their positions.
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Hefce brings the pain: cuts this year and next
Universities in England face a £180 million, 4 per cent cut to their teaching grant in the next academic year, along with additional cuts this year.
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How to Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism
A magisterial study of radical thought has blind spots that perplex an admiring Willy Maley
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Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age
Drowning in information, our predecessors stopped worrying and cut and pasted, says James Delbourgo
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Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire
Nicholas Thomas creates such a clear sense of these islands and their heterogeneous peoples as a pulsing, productive set of entities that it comes as a shock to look at the map in the front of the...