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Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment, by Kenneth Worthy

Laurence Coupe on a grand indictment of the ‘Western epistemological error’

Was 1994 Group’s demise triggered by relaunch delays?

Scrapped mission group was close to high-profile rebrand

Beyond sushi: the attractions of lecturing in Japan

Susan K Burton looks back at her time teaching at Japanese universities and wonders why more Westerners don’t head east

The PGCE is a teaching turn-off

If universities want to keep teacher training, their courses must be more relevant to the real school world, argues Susan Bassnett

Vince Cable slams ‘qualification inflation’ in ‘standard’ professions

Vince Cable has criticised the “qualification inflation” that means entrants to “very standard” professions such as nursing require a degree.

Open University to end PGCE

The Open University is to withdraw its postgraduate teacher training programme after its January and March 2014 intakes.

Access gap ‘not completely explained by grades’

At least a quarter of the “access gap” for “top” universities in three countries cannot be explained by academic achievement, a new report says

Minister attacks universities over visa comments

The immigration minister has accused universities of creating “a self-fulfilling prophecy for bad news” on student visas

Newcastle warns staff over working to contract

A second university has threatened academics with a loss of pay over working to rule, Times Higher Education has discovered. 

Universities dominate 'big gifts' list in US and UK

Major philanthropists are more generous to higher education in the US and UK than they are in other regions, according to a new report.

University staff to strike again

Unions representing higher education staff have announced a second nationwide strike for 3 December.

Academic freedom ‘doesn’t really exist’

“Right-on” lecturers and student campaigns cited as among the reasons, Commons event hears

Scottish independence will threaten research, BIS claims

Scotland risks losing its thriving research base if it becomes independent, analysis by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has claimed

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Student retention software comes under microscope

By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed