āDisreputableā Liverpool tactics provoke professorsā ire
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Apple for teacher, but few promotions or pay rises
HEA study finds efforts to promote pedagogy have yet to pay off
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China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh
A neat model for the nascent superpower is proving elusive, says Kerry Brown
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Willetts, Cable likes you just the way you are
Universities minister odds-on to stay in place in event of July reshuffle
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Recruiters go straight for the parents
Universities aim for credit at bank of mum and dad in high fees era
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Professorial position: Liverpool, think again
We recently heard that the University of Liverpool intends to issue dismissal notices to 2,803 ānon-academicā staff ā 54Ā per cent of the institutionās workforce (āhere for the full list of...
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Durham looks at bond route to fund capital projects
Council gives go-ahead to consider using bond to fill gap left by public funding cuts
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Social sciences targeted in āideologicalā war on research
Calls to restrict fieldsā funds and scope of study alarm US academics
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Contact lenses
However you cost student contact time, it is very expensive. A crude estimate can be made by dividing tuition fees by contact hours ā Ā£9,000 for 300 hoursā contact comes to Ā£30Ā an hour, which is...
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The week in higher education
In a thorough cock-up, the Indian Journal of Surgery has had to retract a paper on āPenile Strangulation by Metallic Ringsā. According to the Retraction Watch website, the article tells the eye-...
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Population number crunch
Demographics suggest that some universities may have to rely more than ever on overseas students for financial stability
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Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe by Costas Douzinas
Pavlos Eleftheriadis on an angry book charting a volatile situation
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Trying Biology: The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools by Adam R. Shapiro
Simon Underdown on a key battle between science and religion
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Count Arthur Strong
Gary Day welcomes the master of malapropism to a screen with a scale that matches his talent: small
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Global academy bends to the winds of demographic change
Danny Dorling considers how population change influences the shape and direction of higher education in fundamental ways