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Cable calls for increase in science spending

Business secretary Vince Cable has called for an increase in funding for science in a speech at the Royal Academy of Engineering

Private providers asked for urgent figures on widening participation

Private providers have been asked to help prepare the government for a key hearing on private higher education just days before it happens

Manchester Met appoints Malcolm Press as next v-c

Manchester Metropolitan University has appointed a new vice-chancellor – at the second time of asking

Private providers: maligned and misunderstood?

Alfred Morris argues that alternative providers, criticised by the National Audit Office, aren’t the villains they’re made out to be.

Welsh government considers response to England postgrad loans

The Welsh government has said it will “look at all the options” before deciding whether to follow England’s lead in introducing postgraduate loans

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Times Higher Education reporters have won plaudits for their agenda-setting journalism at a national awards ceremony

BBC World Service director Peter Horrocks to be next OU v-c

The next vice-chancellor of The Open University will be Peter Horrocks, currently the director of the BBC’s World Service.

11 December 2014

REFutation - One scholar’s crusade against the research excellence framework

News in brief - 11 December 2014

Source: Ron Ellis/Shutterstock.comSatellite campusesWho’s moving to the Olympic Park?The government has awarded more than £140 million to develop a new Education and Cultural Quarter in London at the...

Grant winners - 11 December 2014

Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Daniel CredgingtonInstitution: University of CambridgeValue: £453,007Spin-control and spin-dependent recombination in organic...

Roy Bhaskar, 1944-2014

The chief architect of the philosophy of critical realism has died

Q&A with John Coyne

We speak to the vice-chancellor of the University of Derby

World in brief - 11 December 2014

United StatesCosby ends trustee role at alma materThe comedian and actor Bill Cosby has resigned as a trustee of his alma mater, Temple University in Philadelphia, the university has announced. Mr...

The week in higher education - 11 December 2014

After the saga over the suspension and reinstatement of Thomas Docherty and controversy over the use of allegedly “simplistic” metrics to choose academics for redundancy, the University of Warwick...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 11 December 2014