Creditworthiness of the continental club
It is not difficult to see why student debt incurred by non-UK European Union nationals will cost the British taxpayer a lot of money (āRecruitment boom from Continent prompts warning over student...
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Ucas: discerning with data
One of the things that most engaged me about working at Ucas was understanding the true potential of the data collected every year through the admissions service. Decades of records charting the...
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Valuable qualifications
The letter discussing the teaching excellence framework and teaching qualifications (āTEF: to keep it simple would be stupidā, 20 August) is a welcome addition to the debate. The timetable for the...
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Too open?
Ormond Simpsonās letter says that in 2006 it had been possible to forecast the likely success of a new student entering the Open University, although this system was never used (āWhat are the chances...
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Let the right ones in
I am quite shocked that the number of āghostā authors is so high and that there are therefore a significant number of academics who are cutting out graduate students and postdocs from receiving...
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Holding back
I was delighted to see from the Poppletonian (27 August) that the interview panel had learned one thing from their diversity training, as the obvious question ā āMiss De Beauvoir, I wonder if you...
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Destination: enlightenment
There is a lot of useful process advice in the 10 steps to a successful, or unsuccessful, PhD (ā10 steps to PhD failureā, Features, 27 August). However, in the era of liberal education, I still...
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Laurie Taylor ā 3 September 2015
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Graduate outcomes by mission group
Graduates of Russell Group institutions were the least likely to be unemployed three and a half years after leaving university, with just 1.7Ā per cent falling into this category, figures show
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Holding a mirror up to science
A bid to reproduce key studies is less a tale of failure than of researchersā willingness to put their own practices to the test
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LSBF licence to sponsor overseas students suspended
UKVI takes action against one of Englandās largest private colleges
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The weird and wonderful world of academic Twitter
Glen Wright, from Academia Obscura, peeks inside a Pandoraās box of scholarly microblogging
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Ulster University to close school of modern languages
Computing, maths and business management in line for ārationalisationā as spending cuts hit institution