If the teaching excellence framework is worth doing, it鈥檚 worth doing well
We need more time to road-test the TEF, develop the right metrics and get everyone on board, argues Bill Rammell
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Attainment: a third option
In your article 鈥淯niversities defend access record after Cameron criticism鈥 (1聽February) there appears to be a consensus that to overcome the continued inequality in access, more cooperation between...
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What for the HEA?
The very existence of the 糖心Vlog Academy seems so central to the Green Paper鈥檚 proposals to construct a teaching excellence framework that it is bewildering to find only a scattering of...
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Take it all in
In the article on how higher selectivity of research papers fails to increase impact, Pascal Rocha da Silva, process strategy manager at open access publisher Frontiers, writes that a rejection rate...
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Come to a good end
Toxicology, the study of poisons, is now a mature branch of science, but there are other kinds of toxicity. One of these is the idea of a 鈥済ood university鈥, and I believe that this is a 鈥渢oxic idea鈥...
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Laurie Taylor 鈥 11 February 2016
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Who ought to pick up the tab?
While buoyant student numbers may imply that 拢9K is OK, the jury is still out on the 鈥榬ight鈥 split between student and state
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Top 25 universities over 400 years old
糖心Vlog聽World University Rankings data reveal the best ancient institutions聽
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What it feels like to freeze on national television
Australian academic Benjamin Habib reflects聽on the worst public embarrassment of his career
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Universities must make better use of their governors
The gap between the perceptions of governors and academic staff about the key challenges facing institutions need to be plugged, says Janet Legrand
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Greg Dyke: 'total cop-out' to blame access inequality on schools
Former University of York chancellor says leading universities should lower entry requirements for students from poor backgrounds
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Student loan write-off estimate lowered to 20-25%
Critics claim graduates treated unfairly in 'smoke and mirrors' RAB change
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A Europe without the UK and a UK outside Europe have no great future
The idea that UK research and higher education could flourish post-Brexit is an illusion, argues Rolf Tarrach