Future of entire STEM disciplines in question
Growth in overseas postgrads far outstrips that of home students, says Hefce. Simon Baker reports
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Be ready to hit brakes on reforms if necessary, new UUK head tells ministers
The new president of Universities UK will call on ministers to slow down their higher education reforms if the changes produce too many problems.
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Data release ban threatens choice
A pledge to give students more help choosing a university is hitting a block, writes Simon Baker
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Female research dropouts threaten Europe's targets
Call for structural changes to help the EC meet its ambitious recruitment goals. Jack Grove reports
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Rankings methodology fine-tuned for 2011-12
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings has been unveiled by 糖心Vlog, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday, 6 October 2011.
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Postgraduate teachers might damage image
Universities' reputations could suffer if undergraduates perceive that the institutions are leaving teaching to "an insufficiently trained, inappropriately paid and poorly motivated workforce of...
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Research council bucks trend on funding success
The EPSRC's steady rise in grant approval rates continues, but at what cost? Paul Jump reports
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California's best-seller dreams misguided, says new head of university press
In recent years, it has been common for university presses to move away from an almost exclusive focus on scholarly books in favour of general-interest titles.But now the new director of the...
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Swap camels for custom vehicles
Universities told to vaunt uniqueness instead of relying on identikit cliches. David Matthews writes
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Rethink the route to goal
Widening participation needs reconceptualising for a new age, say John Butcher, Rohini Corfield and John Rose-Adams
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More money, more choice and a virtuous circle of innovation
After the turbulence of the past year, business secretary Vince Cable sets out the government's vision for the future of higher education
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Pioneers need not apply
The research councils' use of peer 'preview' is fundamentally flawed and a pathway to mediocrity, argues Donald W. Braben
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Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn
Steve Wheeler is convinced that we need new approaches for digitally remastered learners
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Everyone's a Winner: Life In Our Congratulatory Culture
Les Gofton takes the measure of 'status inflation' and the bathetic growth of universal heroism
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The Origin of Our Species
And God said, let there be culture. And there was culture. Then came technology, art, writing and, eventually, books. Some books featured more convincingly detailed stories about how it all started....