Pearson audit to ‘challenge’ universities on learning outcomes
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Cambridge ‘spying’ film causes alarm
A students’ union has expressed its anger after a police officer was apparently caught on camera trying to recruit an activist to spy on students
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Malcolm Gillies to retire as London Met v-c
The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has announced he is to retire next year.
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Greens plan protests over loan book sale
The Green Party is organising protests across the country against plans to sell off the student loan book.
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World's 18 best cities for higher education 2014
If we were to choose an official global university capital, which cities would be in the running? The following 18 would certainly be in with a shout
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ULU president Michael Chessum arrested
The battle over plans to close the University of London Union has seen its president, Michael Chessum, arrested.
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THE podcast: 14 November 2013 issue review
Download the podcastResearch grant application success rates, the end of the 1994 Group and Feargal Sharkey’s opinions on the changing face of higher education are all discussed in this week’s issue...
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Research grant success rates, 2013
Research councils show value of restraint
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14 November 2013
Here, let me show you - Mentoring: one-to-one guidance in a hostile world
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Campus round-up - 14 November 2013
Source: Rex FeaturesTake noteA pop-up record shop has been launched to promote work by music students. The NXShop, in South London’s New Cross, sells CDs and vinyl records made by those on the...
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THE Scholarly Web - 14 November 2013
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Arthur Danto, 1924-2013
One of the leading philosophers of his generation has died
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Grant winners - 14 November 2013
Royal SocietyUniversity Research FellowshipsAward winner: Sofia GripenbergInstitution: University of OxfordValue: £476,630Plant-eating insects and the structure of tropical plant communitiesAward...
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News in brief - 14 November 2013
United StatesQuick to the cutA US university has had to cancel classes for the spring term because of budgetary problems. Two weeks ago, just days before student registration began, directors and...
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Odds and quads - 14 November 2013
One of the greatest British writers of the 18th century, Samuel Johnson (1709-84) studied at Pembroke College, Oxford, for just over a year before he ran out of money. He would later describe himself...