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The suggestion to rank institutions according to quality-related funding per staff member submitted to the research excellence framework is problematic, and not only because some research fields are...
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Open up MPsâ closed shop
Nine out of 10 new MPs in the House of Commons are graduates, 26 per cent hold an Oxbridge degree and 28 per cent went to another Russell Group university (âNew Commons still has high proportion of...
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National examination would benefit medics
âAre universities losing control of what they teach to medical students?â asks John Cookson (âSleepwalking into a crisisâ, Opinion, 7 May). It is a legitimate question. However, his analysis omits...
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The week in higher education â 14 May 2015
The election result is unlikely to have gone down well among academics, given the Times Higher Education pre-poll survey suggesting that most intended to vote Labour. But one philosophy lecturer took...
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Postgraduate stop-gap cash shunned by universities
Sixteen institutions have refused all or part of the allocations to bridge gap before loan scheme kicks in
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âEvolving manuscriptsâ: the future of scientific communication?
Chief scientific adviser Sir Mark Walport posits a future in which papers are revised as research matures, supplanting âoutmodedâ publishing practices
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Consider agents as a force for good, paper says
Rethinking relationships with international recruiters could help universities to assuage academicsâ fears, researchers suggest
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WMGâs 3D printed bones help to solve murder case
Prosecutors rely on techniques developed by team at the University of Warwick to secure conviction in âbody in suitcaseâ killing
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âFlying facultyâ often feel down about the life peripatetic
A new report highlights the downsides of life for the travelling lecturer
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Universities' business ties are wider but may not be lasting
NCUB report finds engagement with small firms has grown over the past decade but the size of each tie-up has been shrinking
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Transatlantic pair explore the paths to peace
Queenâs University Belfast and US counterpart compare and contrast domestic civil rights struggles
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Europe needs tenure track to keep young talent, says EPFL head
Continental system is critical to stop drain to US, Patrick Aebischer argues
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Prepare administrators for mission to the summit
Marketisation could make non-academic managers prime vâc material - but theyâll need a strong skill set. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Dead-hard study, then a very final exam
Mortuary science finds the dead in good spirit, discovers Christopher Bigsby
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Churchill and the Islamic World: Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East, by Warren Dockter
The British statesman had a surprising interest in the affairs of Muslims, says Charles Townshend