Government announces new rules for private colleges
The government has announced a series of new restrictions on private colleges, including 鈥渞apid response鈥 investigations of fraud allegations.
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色盒直播 podcast: 29 January - 4 February 2015 issue review
Download the podcastA bounce in student admissions, the best way to re-brand a university, and academic citizenship are all up for discussion in this week鈥檚 issue review podcast.Chris Parr is joined...
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Is Labour鈥檚 timidity on tuition fees a tactic?
A vague policy on higher education could help the party win the next election, argues Nick Hillman
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Labour may call for Dearing-style major review
Party鈥檚 policy announcement awaited as prospect of call for 拢6,000 fees continues to vex sector
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29 January 2015
More helping hands needed - Is 鈥榓cademic citizenship鈥 under聽strain?
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Student admissions bounce back after 2012 slump
Ucas figures show domestic intake increased by 14,000 students in 2014
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REF鈥檚 diversity-boosters find fewer takers in the physical sciences
Report finds new measures did make exercise more inclusive but panels differed in numbers of scholars submitted with reduced outputs
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Rowan Williams on higher education's 鈥榠nhuman and divisive鈥 jargon
Jargon demanded by REF 鈥榬isks isolating universities from rest of society鈥
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Do universities really need to change their names?
As King鈥檚 College London drops a controversial name change, Harriet Line details the dos and don鈥檛s of institutional rebranding
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Make your mind up time
As we are constantly reminded, the general election draws ever nearer.Here at The Poppletonian, we regard it as vitally important that all our readers have a clear knowledge of how each of the main...
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Sir David Bell, Sir David Eastwood, Sandra Leaton Gray, Jon May and Juan C. Moreno-Cabrera...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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US student debt: borrowing the long and lending the short of it
Financing options fail to live up to the promises made by politicians, says Alan Ruby
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Ulrich Beck, 1944-2015
One of the leading sociologists of his generation has died
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Q&A with Baroness Rebuck
We speak to the publisher and incoming pro-provost and chair of the Royal College of Art鈥檚 council
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Academics and admin: too 鈥榖rilliant鈥 to fill in a form?
A Dutch-born scholar and research administrator wonders if the British class system plays a role in views about division of labour