Scottish universities attack governance bill
Scotland’s universities have called on the Holyrood government to put on hold an overhaul of governance in the sector after the proposals met with significant resistance.
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Labour plans to divert £50 million from access
Labour would use £50 million from university access funds to guarantee face-to-face careers advice in schools.
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THE podcast: 9-15 April 2015 issue review
Download the podcastThe Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey, university support for PhD students’ physical and mental health, and figures suggesting nearly half of academics feel their...
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Scottish universities make board gender balance pledge
Scotland’s universities have committed to achieving gender balance among the independent members of their governing bodies.
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Queen Mary to open private medical school in Malta
London institution to charge students £25,000 a year to study at Gozo institute
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Licence absurdity
The proposal by the Higher Education Policy Institute for a UK national open access licence was announced on 30 March. If only Hepi had delayed the announcement by two days, it could have been...
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Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes, by Andrew Brooks
A wide-ranging examination of garment recycling should whet the appetite of readers for more research on the subject, says Ruth Pearson
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Expenses claim
Lincoln Allison remembers when senior academics and vice-chancellors led a relatively ascetic existence and compares it with today when many v-cs are paid salaries similar to those of chief...
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Success, past and present
I read with interest the letter from Paul Whiteley on the Higher Education Funding Council for England research funding allocations, and offer the following observations (“Funding allocations: a...
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Calling off Israel event is setback for freedom
The decision of the University of Southampton to cancel a conference that was to have been held later this month under the auspices of its school of law amounts to a massive setback for academic...
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The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments, by Michael Bérubé and Jennifer Ruth
Thomas Docherty on a study of the academy today and working conditions
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Why journals should not forget their past
Scientific publishing has a noble history of tolerating tiny profits. We need a bit more of that spirit today, suggests Aileen Fyfe
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Digital aids: students reveal ‘benefits’ of technology
High-tech resources are yet to transform the nature of university learning, and often it is the ‘mundane’ use of technologies that aid study
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Why bombs cannot strip Gaza of intellectual life
Writer and scholar Atef Abu Saif tells John Elmes how life goes on despite death from above
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Philosophy’s forgotten women
Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history