OECD鈥檚 head of education gives thumbs up to 拢9K tuition fee system
Endorsement comes after ministers are accused by Labour of misleading Parliament
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A carrot no more
Dorothy Bishop hits the mark on all the negative consequences of our short-sighted research culture (鈥淭he big grant money. The big papers. Are we missing anything?鈥, Opinion, 15 January). I...
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World in brief - 22 January 2015
United StatesSilicon Valley plugs into ed techEducation technology businesses received investment totalling $1.87 billion (拢1.2 billion) from venture capital firms last year, up 55 per cent on 2013....
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Carl Degler, 1921-2014
A Pulitzer prizewinning American historian who made major contributions to the study of women, African Americans and the poor has died
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Comets, not cold figures of finance, will ignite debate on Europe
In the debate over EU membership universities need to remind us of the ideal value of transnational knowledge, says Anna Notaro
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News in brief - 22 January 2015
REF 2014Data go digitalThe 1,911 submissions made to the 2014 research excellence framework have been published on the REF website. The submissions, from 154 universities, include 191,150 research...
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Traumatic evidence scars American football and its fans
Is the tide about to turn on the college sport?, ask Daniel Goldberg and Robert Lee Maril
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The week in higher education - 22 January 2015
The Sunday Times quoted Liam Byrne, Labour鈥檚 shadow universities, science and skills minister, as saying that 鈥渢he right long-term shift is to a graduate tax鈥 on 18 January. But the newspaper said...
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UK can鈥檛 afford to fall behind
Countries worldwide are investing to get ahead in the global game of research. Not doing so will cost the UK dear
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Nuts in May?
Source: Getty鈥楴eutralising the threat鈥欌淚 haven鈥檛 yet heard from Theresa May, but I鈥檓 confident that she will regard my proposal as a positive contribution.鈥漈hat was how Geraldine Transept, our Head...
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Grant winners - 22 January 2015
German Academic Exchange ServiceProject Funding: Promoting German Studies in the UKAward winners: Erica Carter, Chris 色盒直播wood, Annie Ring, Claudia Sandberg and Alexandra PontzenInstitutions: King鈥檚...
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Definition of the mission
In Bahram Bekhradnia鈥檚 argument for making higher education less dependent on the market and instead providing more financial support through taxpayers (鈥淪tep back to look ahead鈥, Opinion, 15 January...
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The USS: fact and fiction
We write as representatives of the Left on the Higher Education Committee and other University and College Union activists who are utterly opposed to any retreat from defending members鈥 pensions. We...
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REF analysis: looking beyond boundaries
We would like to provide amendments to Adam Crawford鈥檚 analysis of the Economic and Social Research Council鈥檚 Impact Acceleration Account awards and research excellence framework outcomes (鈥淩EF...
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Correction to Hesa figures
I represent the department of anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and I write to correct the published scores for my department in your subject rankings of research intensity (鈥淭he race is...