Student freeze halts merger
Ban on expansion sinks plan for music academy to join Thames Valley. Melanie Newman reports
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Newly incorporated polytechnics face the same problem as most British companies - an urgent need to train quality managers to lead the UK back to competitiveness. John Stoddart, principal of...
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ÌÇÐÄVlogThumbs up from readersMore than 90 per cent of ÌÇÐÄVlog readers are satisfied with the magazine, while 81 per cent say that it is personally "important" to them. A...
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'Disappointed' Scots want funding formula revised
Universities and union castigate Government for not rewarding quality research. Zoë Corbyn reports
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The main City Campus of Northumbria University is located in the heart of Newcastle. The new purpose-built £100 million extension at City Campus East (which is linked to the established site at City...
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Institutions attack claims that Saudi and Chinese donors direct policy
Cambridge, Edinburgh and Soas insist that report has its facts wrong. Melanie Newman writes
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Pinker bemoans Sussex's closing of linguistics
Steven Pinker, the internationally renowned expert in language and cognition, has asked the vice-chancellor of the University of Sussex to reconsider his decision to close undergraduate linguistics...
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The lines of beauty
As an essential curricular element, poetry is on the critical list, but Greg Garrard has a plan to make students adore it
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Whisper it: administration can be useful, innovative and even likeable
Scholars must engage with the vital creative support teams that underpin their work. They may even find some satisfaction in paperwork, says Dave Hall
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Font of all wisdom, or not?
The internet may one day hold the library of all knowledge, but not while Wikipedia predominates, says Martin Cohen
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When is a dismissal fair?
One of the claims most commonly considered by employment tribunals is unfair dismissal. What is not always clearly understood by those seeking to pursue such claims is the approach that a tribunal...
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The week in higher education
Women historians have been blamed for turning history into a bizarre soap opera. David Starkey, the historian and well-known television and radio presenter, said women had "feminised" history,...
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Scholars in arts accorded highest esteem in the RAE
Analysis shows that perfect scores were harder to come by in sciences. Zoë Corbyn reports
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DIUS promises to ditch the jargon but defends its use of 'customer'
Select committee's attack on chief scientific officer also rebutted, writes Rebecca Attwood