U-Multirank may be a waste of taxpayers鈥 money
It was conceived by the European Commission as an alternative to the established research-led university rankings, offering a user-driven 鈥渕ulti-dimensional鈥 ranking with a wider range of indicators....
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Peers call for U-Multirank U-turn after failing to discern its value
House of Lords report advises Europe to 鈥榩rioritise other activities鈥. Jack Grove writes
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Leader: Instability narrows horizons
Institutions need secure positions and income to plan and do good work; the same is true of individual scholars
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Research Intelligence - Vim up North leaves the rest trailing
N8 is the poster group for research collaboration and academic links with industry, writes Paul Jump
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The week in higher education
鈥 A British student has been "sold down the river" by the government, his mother has said, after his extradition to the US was approved by Theresa May, the home secretary. Richard O'Dwyer faces up to...
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From where I sit - Journalistic prejudice
Heard the one about the academic pondering obscure points of theory in his ivory tower while real people get on with real work in the real world? How about the saying: "Those who can, do; those who...
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Odds and quads
This stained-glass triptych of saints, including St Agnes and St Hilda, has been restored to its original splendour in the former chapel of what is now the University of Chichester.
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Appointments
University Campus SuffolkBill TancredA former athlete who represented Great Britain in the discus at two Olympic Games has been appointed director of sport and visiting professor of sports leadership...
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The Body Adorned: Dressing London
Are the curiosities of dress of various native peoples really so different from those of today鈥檚 London 鈥榯ribes鈥, asks Matt Lodder
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Insecure in the knowledge
As old-style lifelong tenure fades out in the US, institutions are having to invent new systems by which they can define and judge scholarship, David Mould discovers
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Creative vs accounting
Allowing universities to be run by bean counters and bureaucrats is detrimental to academics' ingenuity and productivity, argues Amanda Goodall
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Dismantle the tower of 'edu-babble'
I am not at all surprised by the poor notices for the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which to me highlight the fact that the 糖心Vlog Academy is probably unfit for purpose...
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Core expression
On 23 January, a meeting of the Atheism, Secularism and Humanism Society at Queen Mary, University of London called to discuss "Sharia law and human rights" was disrupted before the invited speaker,...
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Prejudicial enquiries
You say that the Academic Reputation Survey is based on the "considered, expert judgement of senior, published academics" ("Informed opinion at the heart of the matter", 糖心Vlog World...