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V-c warns of credit crunch over funding plan
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And the brand played on
In India, the US, the UK and beyond, branding is an inescapable part of higher education, for good or ill
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The week in higher education - 18 July 2013
University Challenge quizmaster Jeremy Paxman has entered the perennial âdumbing downâ debate by claiming that todayâs students are cleverer than their predecessors. Mr Paxman, who has hosted the BBC...
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Surrey considered grade targets for staff appraisals
Plans were abandoned only after âextensive negotiationsâ with union
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Bodleianâs chief librarian heads to Harvard
Sarah Thomas leaves Oxfordâs Bodleian Library to take up vice-president post at Harvard Library
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Stern words: peerâs advice for scholars in policy sphere
British Academyâs new president demands clarity and humility
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Edinburgh Napierâs Hong Kong plans lose financial backing
Planned outpost at Queenâs Hill uncertain after concerns over land use protest
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Croatia aims to get sector up to union standard
Newest union member will apply national and European resources to improve qualifications, access and research
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Pushing at the open door
One of the main topics in recent discussions about higher education in Scotland has concerned access to universities by students from disadvantaged backgrounds. For a country with strong support for...
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Capital gains and pains
Malcolm Gillies on London universitiesâ pros and cons
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One voice on widening Scottish access
One of the main topics in recent discussions about higher education in Scotland has concerned access to universities by students from disadvantaged backgrounds. For a country with strong support for...
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Aaron Rosen discusses how the UK is improving upon the US liberal arts model
The UK has not simply adopted the US liberal arts approach, argues Aaron Rosen: it has also enhanced it
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Malcolm Gillies - Capital partnerships
Londonâs universities are all in the same goldfish bowl, says Malcolm Gillies
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Thomas Docherty warns that the need for speed kills learning and crushes reason
Structural impatience disguised as âefficiencyâ diminishes the university and demeans the student, Thomas Docherty warns
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Folkloric and avant-garde, ancient and Modernist
In two African artistsâ work, Shahidha Bari finds moving and complex artistic synthesis as well as knowing provocation