State your demands, Government and Tories tell students
Universities warned to be more responsive or face the consequences. Hannah Fearn reports
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Things fall apart, the sector may not hold: splintered future on cards
Pressures could lead to four-tier system, Liverpool Hope scholar predicts. Melanie Newman writes
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Life itself, the universe and everything that's relevant
Warwick considers including general education modules in curriculum. Hannah Fearn reports
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Government ignores MPs on standards reform
The Government has rejected most of a cross-party group of MPs' recommendations on higher education.The Innovation, Universities, Science and Skills Committee was heavily critical of the sector in...
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Science select committee inquiriesHomeopathic assessmentMPs are to conduct an inquiry into homeopathy to assess the Government's policy on the issue, including the funding of homeopathy under the...
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20% say 'no' to student auditors
Fear of disrupting process is thought to lie at the root of the objection, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Kant trumps cant any day
'Intensely relaxed' about the academy's 'filthy rich legacy', Simon Blackburn sees no need to justify his work to ministers
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Do the market research before you try to make the business case
Michael Thorne argues that the CBI task force's proposals are built on outdated thinking about graduates in a modern economy
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Daytime TV: Minority views
Nick Griffin's recent appearance on Question Time gives Gary Day plenty of food for thought
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Top journals in immunology
Data provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, January 1999-June 2009
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The secret invocation
In preparing a biography of Braque, Alex Danchev explored the meaning of art and its makers. But upon finishing, he faced a much more personal question
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A funny sort of welcome
Complex new visa and immigration regulations are in danger of sending out the wrong message to foreign students and academics, reports Melanie Newman
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29 October 2009
Great leap forward - China: the Middle Kingdom aims for the top
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Government criticised over advert for diplomas
Advertising Standards Authority upbraids department for misleading claims that qualifications are accepted by all universities
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Laws of the academic jungle
What’s it all about? The winner of the THE Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award has distilled ten facts of university life to share