UK values the 'soft' rewards of going global
The notion that British universities are motivated mainly by money in their enthusiasm for internationalisation is misguided, according to a senior UK academic.Christine Ennew, the pro vice-...
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Logged out of Facebook to network with their neurons
Students at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology found themselves forbidden from using the Facebook social networking website at the start of the new semester as part of a week-long...
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Bigger bursaries are not better at attracting poor
Offa chief suggests cash should go to outreach in schools instead, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Union draws ire for its decision to hold fire
The leadership of the University and College Union is under fire from the Left of the organisation amid accusations that its retreat from a national strike ballot is a "debacle" that demolishes any...
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Global Impact: Revamped rankings cause elation and consternation
Delight in US, gloom in Europe and scratching of heads in Australia. Phil Baty assesses reactions
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Fair access is beyond price
Big bursaries are not enticing the poor into elite institutions; targeted outreach may be an answer, says Sir Martin Harris
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This is no time to cut the strings of Britain's economic parachute
University research generates ideas and keeps the country competitive - so we must protect its funding, argues Paul Wellings
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Daytime TV: A class apart
The politics of the North-South divide gave material for many gritty novels of the 1960s, says Gary Day
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Nobel Prize Predictions, 2002-10
Nobel Prize Predictions, 2002-10Data provided by Thomson Reuters Research Services Group, 2002-10YearMedicineChemistryPhysicsEconomics2010D. L. Coleman, J. M. Friedman (leptin) %3Cbr /%3EE. A....
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Brand-new exciting rankings!
Yes, all of us at The Poppletonian are delighted to announce the publication of the brand-new, completely revised, dramatically improved, extraordinarily more sensitive higher education rankings for...
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Don't let views cloud scientific integrity
Global ethics guidelines set out researchers’ duties to be clear and above board, writes Paul Jump
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Leader: The space for a spirit to know
Universities should not be a battlefront but a forum where religion and secularism can be debated without rancour
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Charm offensive
Tim Birkhead on universities' courtship of their next cohort of students
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From where I sit - Logos do not deliver popularity
I bumped into a colleague the other day who expressed her relief at the outcome of the Australian election. The result had hung in the balance for two weeks and could have gone either way before...