Extend part-time loans, IPPR report to urge
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
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George Osborne gives strong hint on protecting science
George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review
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THE podcast: 6 June 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThis week’s issue review was recorded in Red Lion Square, outside the Times Higher Education’s London offices. The concept of monitoring graduates’ earnings according to the...
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THE podcast: Global University Summit 2013
Source: Rex FeaturesDownload the podcastThe 2013 Global University Summit took place in central London between the 28 and the 30 May. In this special podcast, we have exclusive interviews with Boris...
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Journals' ends: scholars favour prestige over access
When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found
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Tackle research fraud with ‘fear factor’: psychiatrist
Reassure junior researchers but make senior scientists know they’re being watched, scholar argues
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An early modern feminist
Liz Schafer explores why the work of the playwright Elizabeth Cary has been so marginalised
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China’s polite society
Austin Williams on eager-to-please students fired by a passion for knowledge
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6 June 2013
Full-time vocation - The university working week: from before sunrise to after sunset
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Nightmare before ‘Christmas Lecture’
Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title
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The week in higher education - 6 June 2013
Leeds Metropolitan University endured a hostile reception after revealing plans to change its name. After deciding that it has “outgrown” its Met tag, the university’s options for new names are Leeds...
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Split system on public-private lines, says University Alliance
Parallel sectors would overcome problems of ‘one-size-fits-all’ funding, group argues
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Students still unsure what constitutes cheating
Europe-wide survey shows students don’t understand plagiarism
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Title adaptation
Simon Underdown notes in his enthusiastic review of Peter J. Bowler’s Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin (Books, 9 May) the author’s conclusion that without Charles, “the Darwin-themed...
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Lose face, use voices
I too have witnessed perverse university appointment decisions (“No one should be hired on the basis of whether their face fits”, Opinion, 23 May). At one institution in south-east England, there...