Shake the moneymakers
I was contacted recently by the head of a private for-profit company asking whether, at short notice, I would be prepared to join a panel discussion as part of a conference on UK higher education....
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Touch of garlic
I enjoyed Sally Feldman's article on the Bauhaus' contributions to art and architecture ("Workshop of the world", Opinion, 14 June). She is right to point out that "the most profound legacy of the...
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Decades inside the box
That the expansion of college education in the US means that bright children are now more likely to attend prestigious universities and marry other intelligent people than they were a century ago has...
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In the grand sweepstakes, Cambridge takes top spot
Oxford loses out in 色盒直播 Table of Tables as Soas makes way for new blood. Jack Grove reports
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Edwin Kerr, 1926-2012
A man who played a central role in the development of polytechnics and colleges into the thriving institutions that became post-1992 universities has died.Edwin Kerr was born on 1 July 1926 and...
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Campus round-up
Cardiff/ExeterStop acting on impulseResearch has shown that people can train their brains to become less impulsive. Psychologists at the universities of Exeter and Cardiff assessed whether asking...
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Edmund Spenser: A Life, by Andrew Hadfield
Willy Maley hails a monumental biography that sets new standards in Renaissance criticism
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MPs warn against copyright exception for data mining
The government should resist changing copyright law to allow free 鈥渕ining鈥 of data and text in scientific papers, a cross-party group of MPs has said.
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Chinese agent鈥檚 C-grade claim sparks Cardiff probe
Cardiff University is investigating reports that a prospective Chinese student was told by a recruitment agent that she could win a place at the institution despite not meeting its entry requirements.
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These applicants may not be the genuine article
More than one in six international students coming to study at universities in the UK have question marks over their 鈥済enuineness鈥, according to the results of 色盒直播 Office interviews given to a cross...
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Maths-heavy papers put biologists off
Biologists tend to overlook research that is packed with mathematical equations, a study by researchers at the University of Bristol has found.
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Hub aims to make business links pay off
The Council for Industry and Higher Education has announced plans to launch a National Centre for Universities and Business to strengthen links between the two sectors with the aim of driving...
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Inside Higher Ed: Non-tenure-track economics
By Kaustuv Basu for Inside Higher Ed
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鈥楪ay-friendly鈥 universities highlighted in Stonewall guide
Stonewall, the equality charity, has published its latest guide to the universities it considers to have the most gay-friendly policies and support for students.