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Graduate employmentToo many gaps to fillEmployers fear there will not be enough graduates and skilled workers to fill the "high-level jobs" created as the economy recovers from the recession, the CBI...
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Live a year in my shoes
Tim Birkhead wonders if a critic would feel differently after a job swap
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Research Intelligence: Help the aged
A multidisciplinary initiative aims to defuse the UK's demographic time bomb. Neha Popat reports
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20 May 2010
Two caps for Two Brains - What does David Willetts have in store for universities and science?
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Cumbria’s v-c exits post
Peter McCaffery leaves with immediate effect. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Tara Brabazon: Town and gown together
Bridging the chasm that separates universities from the environments that support them enriches and enlivens the educational experience, argues Tara Brabazon
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GuildHE asks Browne for new funding regulator
Representative body calls for higher fees and integration of private colleges into “higher education ecology”. John Gill reports
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Impact scepticism
Bad news for unpopular agenda as David Willetts calls for scientific literacy, not ‘utilitarian calculation’. Paul Jump reports
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Russell Group: if you want the best, the cap must go
Submission to fees review says graduates should pay more. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Sex life of fruit bat lands lecturer in hot water
Academic who showed colleague a paper on animal’s sexual behaviour is cleared of sexual harassment but faces two years of monitoring. Hannah Fearn reports
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Why Middlesex Matters
By John Protevi for Inside Higher Ed
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Do the maths: good times ahead for some graduates
Businesses expect shortages of STEM skills as economic growth returns. Hannah Fearn writes
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Cap doesn’t fit: let’s raise it incrementally
1994 Group’s submission to fees review calls for greater competition in the academy to ‘enhance excellence’. John Gill reports
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Move it on over: time’s up, students are told
University goes to court to serve protesters with eviction notice. John Morgan reports