Economy may stall if country coasts on past postgraduate success
UK鈥檚 future prosperity 鈥榬elies on boosting the quality of master鈥檚 and PhD research鈥. Paul Jump reports
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All or nothing: are vivas behind the times?
The system of examination for PhDs in the UK is a 鈥渟candal鈥, a conference on postgraduate issues heard last week.
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Found guilty until proven innocent over unapproved research claims
Professor says he was suspended by Sheffield for mentioning a touchy subject. Paul Jump writes
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Fearless symmetries
Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other鈥檚 orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes
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Reports of the West's demise and East's rise are greatly exaggerated
The THE World University Rankings do not signal a power shift, but rather show just how far Asia still has to go, Michael Cox argues
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Conduct: becoming
As a long career closes, Steven Schwartz is eager to discover what lies ahead
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Research Intelligence - Measured weights and measures
Australia's new funding chief aims for open access and a pragmatic, flexible ERA. Paul Jump reports
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Reforms' impact on deficit may be less than zero, says Hepi
Analysis with revised data and modelling points to 'serious' consequences ahead. John Morgan writes
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Owning A levels 'not advisable or feasible'
Universities dismiss Michael Gove's call for them to take charge of examinations, reports Jack Grove
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The week in higher education
鈥 David Willetts stressed the importance of evidence-based policy as he participated in the official launch of a university-run website linking academics and policymakers. On 16 October the...
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Leader: A cloud of uncertainty over ABB
With so little hard data about, the decision on taking more places out of the numbers cap is tough. It might all come down to cost
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From Where I Sit - Cents and sensibility
Right outside Sather Gate at the University of California, Berkeley, student activists are canvassing and urging their fellow students to "Register and Vote!" I don't know for sure whether they are...
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Odds and quads
One of the classic images of the frozen North, Sir Edwin Landseer's Man Proposes, God Disposes was first exhibited in 1864 and praised for its "tragic grandeur".
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Appointments
Queen Mary, University of LondonTim BaleA newly appointed professor of politics at Queen Mary, University of London said it was a difficult decision to leave his post at the University of Sussex but...