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Government fundingHE may suffer quango cutsHigher-education bodies may be targeted in a cull of quangos announced by Vince Cable. In his first major speech, the business secretary announced plans to...
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Report finds too little funding for part-time study
Very few part-time undergraduates receive government financial support, while those funded by their employers are the least in need of financial help, a study has found.Futuretrack: Part-time...
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Edinburgh's overseas 'jolly' draws UCU fire
University says it hopes to engage overseas alumni via Hong Kong council event, writes Hannah Fearn
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Eastern mystique
These enthralling pictures were among those showcasing the photographic talents of students in East Asian studies at the University of Leeds. More than 250 entries to the "Eye on Asia" photographic...
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Dem bones, dem bones, dem very profitable bones
Queen Mary rewarded for hard graft with sale of medical spin-off company. Hannah Fearn reports
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Daytime TV: Who the hell am I?
Considering what makes us tick is all very well, says Gary Day, but some actions defy simplistic definition
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Do you think I'm sexy?
"An important and exciting breakthrough." This was the reaction of Jamie Targett, our thrusting Director of Corporate Affairs, to recent research by Dr Catherine Hakim of the London School of...
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Greed is the going rate
Don't blame v-cs, argues Alan Ryan. It is the entire social system that is corrupt
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Research intelligence: Big Brother backlash
A website is shining the spotlight on state-perpetrated crime. Melanie McFadyean reports
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Off Piste: A very bearable lightness of being
Rick Rylance finds the enquiring attentiveness to what one might discover while diving is similar to the process of conducting research - without the corresponding need to write about it
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Leader: Support for second chances
'Upskilling' is a noble aim of the main parties, but to achieve it, we must remove the financial barriers to part-time study
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From where I sit: Show respect and make it real
The status of adjunct faculty is proving to be one of the summer's hot topics for discussion in higher education in North America.
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Wynne Godley, 1926-2010
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Savings: v-cs should lead by example
In his letter to Times Higher Education last week ("They're worth it, they say"), James Uccello comments on Vince Cable's attack on vice-chancellors' salaries ("Cable 'taken aback' by recent v-c pay...