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World in brief – 9 April 2015

Source: GettyUnited StatesSpike in cheating claimsStanford University’s provost has written to academics to warn them about an “unusually high number of troubling allegations of academic dishonesty”...

News in brief – 9 April 2015

Source: UoNannesmartThe Russell GroupNew broom at mission groupThe Russell Group’s next chair will be Sir David Greenaway, vice-chancellor at the University of Nottingham. Sir David will take over at...

Dem bones, dem bones

Source: GettyScooped: an unfortunate marketing strategyOne of our leading academic contenders for involuntary redundancy, Ted Odgers of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has apologised...

The week in higher education – 9 April 2015

The cancelling of a conference on Israel that was due to take place at the University of Southampton this month has prompted uproar among many academics, who say that the decision is stifling freedom...

A growth spurt with challenges

The uncapping of student numbers may not result in a surge across the sector - but things are changing all the same

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 9 April 2015

Diversity in boardroom

The editorial in last week’s ����Vlog was quite simply excellent (“It’s not just bad, it’s wrong”, 2 April). I am delighted that it recognised the unfairness and lack of gender equality...

Zeroing in on zero hours

Ed Miliband should be applauded for his pledge to provide workers with a proper contract if they work regular hours on a zero-hours contract for 12 weeks. Casualisation is higher education’s dirty...

If it’s broke, fix it

Fred Inglis claims that “nobody provides any account of what to do, of how to prevent an ideologically demented and morally unprincipled government and its stooges from turning an internationally...

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Unfortunately, Miwa Hirono has become the victim of Daily Mail-peddled nationalistic, anti-immigrant, political ideology, which has ����Vlog Office staff lawyers obliged to appeal every immigration...

‘Failing’ institutions will not be fined

Proposal for financial penalties to maintain standards is rejected following sector-wide consultation

N8 remains optimistic despite REF slide

The director of a partnership of research-intensive universities is upbeat about future outlook

Getting down to business, Australian style, may be the only option

Association of University Administrators conference hears that too many UK institutions are ‘emulators, not leaders’ in disruptive times

Degree withheld in Worcester fees dispute

University may apply to lift stay on small claims court pursuit of graduate determined not to pay for ‘inadequate’ tuition

Campus close-up: Royal Holloway, University of London

A new doctoral centre will examine Magna Carta’s influence in the digital age