Let the REF games begin
Universities hoping to submit staff who have already left are going to have to work hard on maintaining goodwill, says Robert Dingwall
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David Willetts: ‘I plead guilty’ on part-time student decline
MPs also hear Lord Browne say government changes to his review’s system meant ‘it started not working’
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Edinburgh launches institute to tackle world’s major problems
£10 million gift will help fund what will become one of Europe’s largest centres for interdisciplinary learning and research
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Is the UK’s approach to open access sustainable? We must move further, faster
Without action, the UK might end up in the situation of funding both subscriptions and article-processing charges on an ongoing basis, writes Helen Blanchett
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Do university rankings allow the real ‘stars of teaching’ to shine?
Mark Jones looks at what happens to the league tables if you isolate the World University Rankings’ teaching metrics
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US universities pledge to increase intake of low-income students
Six institutions with strong graduation rates announce new targetsÂ
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Australian universities step up pressure over budget cuts
Higher education access provides ‘inoculation against political dislocation’, Universities Australia tells ministers
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Financing two-year degrees: more complicated than you might think
Longer courses could mean bigger loans, which would eat into the government’s trumpeted savings, says Nick Hillman
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Internationalisation key as Asian challengers bid to reap returns
Investment is ‘necessary but not sufficient’ to enable world-class research, which also relies on international collaboration
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UK and Switzerland ‘best in Europe’ at importing top researchers
Research grant data shows patterns of academic migration around Europe – with Italy suffering the biggest brain drain
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These are the 10 most popular academic papers of 2017
Alternative metrics find that research on dieting, PhD mental health and female doctors attracted the most online attention this year
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Macron’s climate research programme poaches 18 scientists
Response to US withdrawal from Paris climate accords announces first winners – but has been denounced as a publicity stunt by some French academics