Grant winners
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Graham CormodeInstitution: University of WarwickSmall summaries for big...
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Grant winners - 18 September 2014
Royal SocietyWolfson Research Merit AwardsAwards are worth £10,000-£30,000 a year, which is a salary enhancementAward winner: Graham CormodeInstitution: University of WarwickSmall summaries for big...
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Focus on recruiting foreign students reveals ‘mission drift’
Pro v-c at Nottingham Trent attacks ‘profit chasing’ in sector and calls time on marketing speak
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APHEN brings Asia together
A Unesco project is linking academics in 12 Asian countries via the Internet, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne Universities in Commonwealth and certain Asian countries are promoting multilateral...
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Northampton opens regional office in Malaysia
The University of Northampton is to open a regional office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in a bid to increase student recruitment from the region.
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Lost in abbreviated history
The disturbances in Ukraine should make us rethink the policy of updating history courses at all levels by bringing the starting points progressively closer to the present. At the moment, the 16th...
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The Undersea Network, by Nicole Starosielski
John Gilbey is fascinated by the unseen fibre-optic communications cables that gird the globe
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News in brief - 9 October 2014
Postgraduate studyUK survey verdict: mostly happyFour out of five postgraduate students are happy with their course, a new survey indicates. Some 83 per cent of the 67,580 people polled for the...
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Stronger Asian systems could reduce student numbers in UK
Observatory on Borderless Higher Education report author urges UK universities to factor in growth of transnational education
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Oxford v-c Andrew Hamilton says sexism is ‘unconscious’ but real
V-c speaks on marketing research, ethics, gender bias at Universia International Presidents’ Meeting 2014 in Rio de Janeiro
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Academic blind spot in Asia
We are accustomed to the history of Orientalism in the West and its politically correct extension, the field of Asian studies. We are less aware, however, of Asian efforts to study one another's...
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Times Higher Education announces reforms to its World University Rankings
Times Higher Education today announces a series of important changes to its flagship É«ºÐÖ±²¥ World University Rankings
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Sars curbs Antipodean recruitment drive in Asia
A drop in recruitment of overseas students to universities in New Zealand and Australia due to the Sars epidemic could have a devastating knock-on effect for the institutions' incomes. The...
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Grant winners - 27 February 2014
Health FoundationAward winner: Sara DemainInstitution: University of SouthamptonValue: £238,000Self-management VOICED (valued outcomes of importance: consensus and disparity) Leverhulme TrustMajor...
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1,300 universities, one shared fear: the commodification of education
IAU study identifies threats and opportunities of internationalisation