BIS civil servant to be new GuildHE chief
Gordon McKenzie is latest to leave department
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Pension cost rise looming for universities
University pension costs rose slightly last year, but may increase significantly in 2016 as major reforms take effect, according to pension experts.
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UAL takes legal action against student occupiers
The University of the Arts London is taking legal action to evict students who have staged a three-week occupation of one of its art schools.
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Big student vote coming in election, survey suggests
Students are planning to vote in huge numbers in the general election, according to a survey, despite many lacking faith that doing so will help improve their lives.
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Students ‘moved out’ to make room for science festival
Postgraduate students at the University of Bradford claim they are being kicked out of their accommodation over the summer so rooms can be rented out to people attending a science festival.
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The 10 most popular Times Higher Education stories of March 2015
Which of Times Higher Education’s raft of university news, reviews, comment and features had you clicking through to our website in March?Well, as ever, a whole range of topics make our monthly top...
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Scottish universities attack governance bill
Scotland’s universities have called on the Holyrood government to put on hold an overhaul of governance in the sector after the proposals met with significant resistance.
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Labour plans to divert £50 million from access
Labour would use £50 million from university access funds to guarantee face-to-face careers advice in schools.
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ podcast: 9-15 April 2015 issue review
Download the podcastThe Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey, university support for PhD students’ physical and mental health, and figures suggesting nearly half of academics feel their...
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Scottish universities make board gender balance pledge
Scotland’s universities have committed to achieving gender balance among the independent members of their governing bodies.
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Queen Mary to open private medical school in Malta
London institution to charge students £25,000 a year to study at Gozo institute
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Licence absurdity
The proposal by the Higher Education Policy Institute for a UK national open access licence was announced on 30 March. If only Hepi had delayed the announcement by two days, it could have been...
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Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes, by Andrew Brooks
A wide-ranging examination of garment recycling should whet the appetite of readers for more research on the subject, says Ruth Pearson
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Expenses claim
Lincoln Allison remembers when senior academics and vice-chancellors led a relatively ascetic existence and compares it with today when many v-cs are paid salaries similar to those of chief...
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Success, past and present
I read with interest the letter from Paul Whiteley on the Higher Education Funding Council for England research funding allocations, and offer the following observations (“Funding allocations: a...