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Racial equality is sliding down the government’s agenda, says Sally Feldman
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Leader: Restate the statements of intent
Learning outcomes' laudable vision has been obscured by bureaucracy and the market: it's time to return to first principles
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Still leading, learning and sharing passion for teaching
Jack Grove speaks to the former president of Ireland who will lead an EU inquiry into higher education
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Charitable trust, shareholder suspicion: Buckingham v-c's for-profit fears
The head of the UK’s first privately funded university has reacted to the creation of the second such institution with “great scepticism”, warning that dependence on shareholders could be “even more...
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Knight takes critical position to become BIS grandmaster
Sir John O’Reilly will soon become the sector’s most powerful civil servant. He talks to Elizabeth Gibney
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Research intelligence - Now she'll work by her own rules
Astrid Wissenburg helped set the policies she will be bound by in her new OU role. Paul Jump writes
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A city's spirits unextinguished
An exhibition foregrounds the people of Dresden and their many and contradictory stories rather than their historical tragedy, discovers Ulrike Zitzlsperger
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The Outer Limits - Waking the dead
In the first of a new series on academics who conduct research in extreme circumstances, Gillian Fowler recalls the six years she spent working as a forensic anthropologist exhuming mass graves in...
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29 November 2012
Let them fly - Set learning free from the constraints of bureaucracy
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'You're hired'...no, wait...'You've got a scholarship'?
Ghana tunes in for British Council’s Apprentice-style reality TV show. David Matthews reports
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Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
Sergio Sismondo on a critical exploration of a new, lucrative model for public well-being
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THE podcast: David Miliband
Podcast Powered By PodbeanFormer foreign secretary and Labour MP David Miliband discusses the rationale behind his tour of UK universities, the importance of higher education institutions paying the...
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THE podcast: Carsten Maple
Podcast Powered By PodbeanCarsten Maple, director of the National Cyberstalking Centre at the University of Bedfordshire, and pro-vice chancellor of research and enterprise, discusses the impact and...
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Transfer of powers: legal question hangs over University of Law
Legal expert identifies ‘unclear’ structure of landmark in coalition policy. John Morgan reports
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Birthplace of Arab Spring, deathbed of academic freedom?
A dean’s legal battle has wider implications for Tunisia’s universities. Matthew Reisz writes