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AustraliaTesting times for TeqsaAustralia鈥檚 new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott鈥檚...
AustraliaTesting times for TeqsaAustralia鈥檚 new higher education regulator faces a test of its powers after it emerged that two private institutions have challenged some of its decisions. Stott鈥檚...

V-c points to structural reform鈥檚 intellectual and vocational benefits. John Morgan reports

The first step in tackling plagiarism in Japan is making students understand what it is, as it is a Western concept that does not fit well within Asian culture. To describe it, the Japanese word...

Educational charity in the vanguard of university outreach is getting results. Jack Grove reports

A century on, MRC has captured the public鈥檚 heart and the state鈥檚 wallet. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Karen PolizziInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: 拢108,160How does yeast Golgi organisation contribute to protein glycosylation?...
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere

Aston UniversitySimon GreenThe new executive dean of Aston University鈥檚 School of Languages and Social Sciences, Simon Green, said that it was a 鈥渉uge privilege鈥 to take on the role, while noting the...

A distinguished civil servant who went on to become the second master of St Catherine鈥檚 College, Oxford and the second chancellor of the University of Essex has died.Patrick Nairne was born into a...

Failure to evaluate the impact of widening participation funding - and to fight for its retention - has left it vulnerable to the axe

Martin McQuillan on graduate earnings by subject and institution: the Manhattan Project for the English sector?

Dame Julia King鈥檚 institution is tackling gender inequality - it is high time that the rest of the sector followed suit, she argues

Open-access advocates are utopian thinkers whose ideas work only if you ignore the costs of journal publishing, argues Richard Hoyle

US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers
Zero Marx for Gove鈥檚 time warp (again)Michael Gove is stuck in a time warp (鈥淓nemy of promise鈥, 13聽June). Twenty-five years ago, the radical Right was publishing similar scare stories about Marxists...