REF cycles 鈥榝orce academics to rush out poorer quality research鈥
Study finds 35 per cent increase in publications ahead of submission deadline, but 12 per cent decline in citations
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UK universities plan German links to weather Brexit storm
Partnerships should allow access to a wider pool of research grants, institutions hope
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Unsettled status is too high a price for Brexit
糖心Vlog Office threats to deport her may have been an 鈥榰nfortunate error鈥, but聽Eva Johanna Holmberg is still wary about the future
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Interview with Patrick Awuah
The Ghanaian university president on medieval poetry,聽good leadership and Goethe聽
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Rock school awarded more student loan funding than LSE
Private equity-backed music institute trebled number of students with taxpayer-backed loans to net 拢24.4 million in 2016-17, new figures show
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New year predictions: what does 2018 have in store for universities?
After the twin shocks of Brexit and Trump, Patrick McGhee can only guess what the next 12 months will bring. Are you ready for peer-reviewed tweets, TEF results determined by University Challenge,...
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 4 January 2018
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What lies in store for global higher education in 2018?
Funding, Brexit and the growing power of China are among key issues to watch in 2018, say sector experts 鈥 but there is a glimmer of optimism, too
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Our 鈥榮lippery鈥 discourse is tripping us up
The feature 鈥淐hasing the elusive catch鈥 (7 December) claimed to address the question of how widening participation could best be achieved. And while it contained some interesting and useful...
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No shortcuts
As I have not seen it mentioned in the recent coverage of two-year degrees (鈥淒fE bids to raise English fee cap to 拢11K for two-year degrees鈥, News, 14 December), I would like to point out that...
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Teaching impact
My thoughts were with the family of the late Stephen Bax over Christmas (News, 14 December). It is odd how Stephen, an Open University professor and leading authority on the use of technology for...
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Books editor鈥檚 blog: coming to terms with personal demons
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is putting student well-being at the forefront of its concerns