Union pours water on public asset 'fire sale'
Institutions with private equity links must face enhanced audits, says UCU. John Morgan writes
Institutions with private equity links must face enhanced audits, says UCU. John Morgan writes
Universities' current charitable model of governance will prevent them from taking advantage of the higher education boom in emerging economies, David Willetts has argued.
Older academics are taking early retirement to pursue "authentic study" because of modern constraints on researchers.
Minister says cross-subsidisation of other units should be rethought. David Matthews writes

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UK’s future prosperity ‘relies on boosting the quality of master’s and PhD research’. Paul Jump reports