Rise in unconditional offers causes concerns about fairness
About 10 per cent of admissions staff say their university offers places over the phone on predicted grades alone, UCU survey finds
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Teaching grant may be sliced to聽make the cut, some suggest
Time needed to shift to maintenance loans means BIS savings will have to come from elsewhere, sector believes
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Losing our place in the vanguard?
Senior figures worry that the UK is lagging behind the innovators and entrepreneurs pushing the frontiers of higher education
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham 鈥 18 June 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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Being human is good for science
Sir Tim Hunt made some spectacularly inept remarks about women in science, which are rightly being thoroughly ridiculed. He taught me as an undergraduate, and I have run into him over the years since...
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Don鈥檛 take it for granted
The article on grant income targets identifies Abertay University as one of 11 universities that set 鈥済rant-winning goals鈥 for individual academics (鈥淕rant goals set for staff at one in six campuses...
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Irregular regulations
From reading G.鈥塕. Evans鈥 piece on outsourcing the duties of the Quality Assurance Agency, it seems that others are beginning to notice that the changes being made to our assurance systems contain...
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Building a global network
The article on allowing British students to use state loans for fees abroad struck a chord with me (鈥淒avid Willetts: allow student loans to be used abroad鈥, 2 June). I, too, spoke at the British...
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The library lives
Laurie Taylor provides his usual incisive perspective on current issues in higher education by poking gentle fun at the changing roles of academic librarians (鈥淭he Dewey, Dewey Fog鈥, The Poppletonian...
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Inequality in attainment
Despite the best efforts of the widening participation initiative, the attainment gap in higher education between black and minority ethnic students and their white counterparts remains. The breadth...
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Everything is just so
The University of Cambridge plans to appoint a LEGO professor of play in education, development and learning (鈥淐ambridge LEGO professor and research centre: price tag 拢4m鈥, 11聽June). Guided by The...
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THE Leadership and Management Awards archive
THELMAs 2015 winners The winners were announced on 18 June 2015 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. THELMAs 2014 winners The winners were announced on 17 June 2014 at the Grosvenor House Hotel in...
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THE Leadership and Management Awards 2015 winners
Our universities are not only among our most valuable national assets, they are also incredibly complex and demanding institutions in which to work. The pressures on those responsible for guiding...