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Among the factors that make students (and others) happy is community, hard as it may be to measure
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Are PhD vivas still fit for purpose?
The viva, the final hurdle to gaining a PhD, is labour-intensive, not conducted to any national standard and is dreaded by students who fear an examiner will capriciously halt their career. Is it...
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Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life by Jonathan Sperber
Sheila Rowbotham on a crisp portrait of a restless thinker who was neither infallible nor prophetic
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É«ºÐÖ±²¥ Student Experience Survey 2013
The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2013 shows a responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Accentuate for-profit positives, eliminate negatives
Thinktank calls on federal government to level the playing field
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York v-c Brian Cantor to join Bradford
Brian Cantor, the vice-chancellor of York University, is to take charge of the University of Bradford as his next post.
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Libel reforms set to become law
A bill to reform the libel system in England and Wales is set to become law after completing its passage through the Houses of Parliament.
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University participation rate hits record high
The proportion of young people accessing higher education hit a record high of 49 per cent as students scrambled to avoid last year’s tuition fee hikes, a new study says.
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Jeremy Farrar to be next Wellcome Trust director
The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.
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Ucea kicks off pay talks with 0.5 per cent offer
University staff have been offered a 0.5 per cent pay increase for the next academic year – far below unions’ claims for a salary rise in excess of 3 per cent.
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Scottish funding chief to join Abertay
The chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council is to leave his position to join a university, a matter of weeks after a similar move by the head of the English funding council.
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Chancellors make impression on Rich List
The Duke of Westminster has been revealed as the country’s richest university chancellor in a list of the UK’s wealthiest people.
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Inside Higher Ed: EdX Rejected
By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed
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Uclan shelves plans for company status
The University of Central Lancashire is shelving plans to switch to private company status, potentially dealing a blow to other post-1992 universities’ hopes of making the move and opening up to...
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Sussex outsourcing opposition grows
Academic opposition to outsourcing at the University of Sussex is building, with staff from ten schools, departments and research centres publishing statements supporting protests at the institution.