Leader: Not such a superpower after all
It is folly to emulate a US higher education system that, according to OECD figures, is failing so many of its young citizens
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From where I sit - Time to stop 'spruiking' PhDs
OK. I shall be the one to raise the question that cries out to be asked of my country's university staff, administrators and government financiers. Why do we enrol so many PhDs? Why do we entice so...
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Appointments
University of LeedsTheo RaynorIt was the white coats of the pharmacists at his local Boots store in Skegness that inspired Theo Raynor to pursue a degree in the field. Now Professor Raynor, currently...
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Research intelligence - Worth the paper it's written on?
How important are doctoral students to research - and vice versa? Jon Cartwright reports
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Find teeth, then sharpen
US public servants badly need union support, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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15 September 2011
21st-century docs - Cartoonist turns film-maker to create PhD The Movie
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Chase profit or risk being as ‘dead as disco’, university managers told
A Danish businessman has told a conference of European educators that university managers who resist the profit motive are sticking with a strategy that is “as dead as disco”.
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Scottish universities could face mergers over ‘course duplication’
The Scottish government has said that some universities north of the border should merge to avoid “overlaps in provision”.
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Government accused of cutting science budget ‘by the back door’
The government’s rhetoric on the protection of science funding has not been matched by the “alarming” fiscal reality, according to the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
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Coalition responds to MPs' concerns over UKCMRI
The government has dismissed concerns over the decision to base the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in central London.
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Proportion of UK GDP devoted to higher education falls again
Investment in higher education in the UK as a share of national wealth dropped further behind the average among industrialised countries even before the current funding reforms, according to an...
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Northern Ireland joins Scotland and Wales in charging ‘rest-of-UK’ students ?9k
Northern Ireland has become the latest of the devolved nations to announce that its universities will charge “rest-of-UK” students up to ?9,000 a year – a move that will subsidise lower fees for the...
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The top 200 – and the best of the rest
This year’s rankings will also include a list of the 200 institutions just outside the top 200 – not ranked – but for interest and transparency. Phil Baty reports
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Lawsuit filed in Duke cancer case
A university at the centre of a medical research scandal is being sued by two cancer patients and the families of six deceased patients.
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Inside Higher Ed: Plagiarism betrayal?
By Elizabeth Murphy, for Inside Higher Ed