The gift of tongues
Many state school pupils miss the chance to learn a foreign language. Universities must offer them the opportunity, insists Julia King
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Elite fear fall in applications will hit access effort
Elite research universities fear that their state school student numbers could decline as higher tuition fees are introduced, amid suggestions that applicants are increasingly choosing local...
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Sector must reject neoliberal business-speak, event hears
Academics have been "seduced" into using business-speak to defend higher education, according to leading scholars and politicians.
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Hefce official publicly rebukes CBI director
One of the English funding council's most senior officials publicly rebuked a business leader after she suggested that some universities were "perilously close" to being in financial trouble.
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Watchdog finds fault with Leeds Met validation
The Quality Assurance Agency has raised concerns about Leeds Metropolitan University's validation of degrees.
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'Research suffers if scientists are forced to marry for money'
Conference delegates bemoan funding system that breeds 'networks of mediocrity'. Paul Jump reports
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REF panellists must be absolutely clear: quality in the UK is not in decline
Research excellence framework panels must be sure to make absolute rather than relative judgements of submissions to avoid the impression that the quality of the UK research base is in decline, a pro...
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Class cancelled, there's a strike on
Pedagogy postponed as scholars and support staff join huge pension action. John Morgan writes
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PQA would 'stress' students in A-level timetable squeeze
Exam chief also warns that proposals could work against widening participation. Jack Grove reports
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Ad spells out 2012 fees amid fears of falling roll
The University of Edinburgh has taken out advertisements in UK national newspapers to explain the new tuition fees system to non- Scottish students because it fears that they do not understand the...
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News in brief
EPSRC policy programme'Don't rush decision,' IoP pleadsThe deadline set by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for final decisions on its "shaping capabilities" programme is too...
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Breaking the news mould
Journalism with academic analysis can create material with impact - but will the REF consider it? asks John Mair
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Gaddafi affair shows we must be clear and robust about ethics
The LSE made mistakes in its links with Libya, as Lord Woolf found. Judith Rees, its director, says it will learn from those failings
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Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments his Shrinking Brain...
Laurie Taylor revels in the shock of recognition as a scholar laments the dying of the light
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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics and How They Shook the Scientific World
Experts will relish these paradigm-shifting concepts but lay readers may struggle, warns Graham Farmelo