#LoveHE: Making your own luck
Anshul Tomer, a successful actor and singer, is thankful for the life-changing experience of studying in Edinburgh
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First impressions in the hot seat
'Positive' London Met v-c praises commitment of staff and students. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Misguided philistines in a relationship that is doomed to failure
While its aim to widen access is welcome, the strategy document Higher Ambitions is based on a fallacy, says Vernon Bogdanor
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Towards freedom, and more success
The past 10 years have seen their fair share of ups and downs for higher education in Ireland, but Ferdinand von Prondzynski, outgoing president of Dublin City University, leaves his post with more...
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It's a Browne world, but there's still a place for us
Over the next few weeks, most universities in England will nail their colours to the mast and set their undergraduate tuition fees for 2012-13, when the cap will rise to £9,000. It will mark the...
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Appointments
University of NottinghamMartin BinksA one-time novelist with a flair for entrepreneurial thinking has been appointed dean of Nottingham University Business School. Martin Binks, who is also professor...
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UCU threatens Sussex with ‘ultimate sanction’
Union ballots members over academic boycott. John Morgan reports
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The global challenge
As world league tables gain influence they need to reflect the multi-faceted nature of universities’ activities, says Seeram Ramakrishna
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Total commitment
I would like to make it clear that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is committed to the agenda outlined by Lord Drayson regarding focusing research funding on areas of...
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Who let them in?
Advisers, administrators, trusted vice-chancellorial aides and henchmen: Mark Leach considers the rise of the 'policy wonks' and the mixed reception afforded a new force in the higher education...
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News in brief
Times Higher EducationThumbs up from readersMore than 90 per cent of Times Higher Education readers are satisfied with the magazine, while 81 per cent say that it is personally "important" to them. A...
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Facing unpalatable facts
I was disappointed to see Times Higher Education's record of scholarly reviewing marred by Sian Moore. Her account of Gary Daniels and John McIlroy's edited collection Trade Unions in a Neoliberal...
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REF Pilot: humanities impact is evident and can be measured
Judy Simons declares that the cultural and societal benefits of the arts are transformative, calculable and must be advertised
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Reboot camp
Aspiring and seasoned US journalists alike are looking to tech-savvy graduate schools to help them survive and thrive in a new multimedia environment. Jon Marcus reports
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Appointments
University of NorthamptonJackie CampbellThe phrase "no pain, no gain" could have been invented for Jackie Campbell, professor of neurophysiology at the University of Northampton. Professor Campbell...