How to act like a superstar scholar
Mark Readman offers a guide to help selfish academics ensure that everyone at a conference knows they are very special indeed
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The Higher Education and Research Bill: it’s a matter of trust
For the first time, says the UK’s universities minister Jo Johnson, academic freedom and institutional autonomy will be enshrined in UK law
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Universities need COOs, CFOs and other specialist senior managers
To help manage their expanding activities, institutions require new corporate leadership personnel, Sarah Shaw says
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Monumental questions about uncomfortable pasts
That students debate how to treat campus memorials to figures linked with unsavoury historical events is perhaps a fitting legacy
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Laurie Taylor – 15 December 2016
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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UK universities with lower entry tariffs see fall in recruitment
Ucas end of cycle report also shows that number of EU undergraduates accepted on to courses reached record high
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Academic conferencing for dummies
Off to an academic conference? Helena Ledmyr offers some tricks to getting the most out of attending a scholarly gathering
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These are the 20 most popular academic papers of 2016
Alternative metrics find that research from Barack Obama received the most online attention this year
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Integrate employability and internationalisation, universities told
Focus on skills and job readiness 'disengages' academics from issue, says HEA head
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Female professors ‘pay price for academic citizenship’
Women in academia may be losing out salary-wise because they are more focused on tasks that may go unrewarded, a study suggests
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Mannequin Challenge: six of the best from universities
Students and staff take on the viral challenge, posing en masse in laboratories, halls of residence and lecture theatres
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India and Indonesia commit to study each other’s culture
New university chairs are part of a broader package of ties