What does 2016 have in store for higher education?
Our bloggers and social media followers gaze into their crystal balls and predict what the year in HE might look like
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Joanna Williams: courage of her convictions
It is always interesting when people take ideas to their logical conclusion, says Matthew Reisz
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Do sporting metaphors sell academics short?
Using the language of sport to sell metrics-based performance management ignores what sport can really teach academia, argues linguistics scholar Liz Morrish
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Russell Group v-cs awarded modest pay rises
Average increase of 6 per cent in pay and pensions packages inflated by ‘transitional arrangements’ at Durham
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Ed Balls: failure to find ‘sustainable’ way to fund universities a ‘blot on Labour’s copybook’
Former Labour shadow chancellor, now visiting professor at King’s Policy Institute, believes graduate tax would avoid dangers of fees market
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Blindly counting academics’ publications ‘is the road to hell’
Jenny McDonald examines the response to calls for academics who are not highly productive researchers to be given more recognition?
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To ban or not to ban? Why we shouldn’t be hasty about book censorship
The decision to republish Mein Kampf is a reminder that we can learn from hateful words, says?Marion Wynne-Davis
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‘Generational schism’ on race lines could cut public support for higher education
Older white voters more hostile to state university funding if younger population is ethnically diverse, Californian study finds
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NUS ‘must focus on areas where it can have biggest impact’
Chief executive Simon Blake responds to concerns that union is ‘less than the sum of its parts’
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US court backs university decision to refuse teacher training applicant
Mark Oyama’s statements about adult-child sex and schoolchildren with disabilities made him ‘unsuitable’, University of Hawaii said
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Lake Superior State University produces list of 13 ‘banished words’
US institution reveals its 41st?annual list of words that should be banned due to misuse, overuse and general uselessness?