From Where I Sit - Bologna, but with Asian spice
Europe is reshaping higher education through its Bologna Process, but it is not the only region to do so. A similar process is taking place on the other side of the world, but in a distinctly East...
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Interview - One man, two guvnors and a single vision
Paul Jump talks to Andrew Coats, go-to director for a game-changing approach to collaboration
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Gas fills tanks but some are fracked off
Jon Marcus on the fiscal and ecological impact of extracting petroleum riches on US campuses
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The week in higher education
• A university's Christian Union caused uproar by banning female speakers at some meetings unless they were accompanied by their husbands, The Daily Telegraph reported on 4 December. The decision by...
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Scramble for top students linked to fall in numbers
Universities and applicants put eggs in one basket, Ucas suggests. Jack Grove reports
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North star to set UCL's direction
Leeds v-c will replace Malcolm Grant and plans to extend 'global footprint'. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Fresh blood an option after year of heavy losses
Remaining 1994 Group members meet for first time after mass departures. John Morgan reports
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The sector shalt be free, fair and never satisfied
Academic freedom has been listed as the first of "10 commandments of higher education" by a leading scholar.
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'Unreasonable' rules make Regent's reluctant to compete for state loans
Head criticises plan to cap undergraduate numbers for private access to SLC funds. John Morgan writes
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Leader: Can't cry wolf over all the howling
Paul Ramsden's attack on the critics of academic reform is entertaining but unfair: there are plenty of causes for concern
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London's falling
Geoffrey Alderman mourns the decline and seemingly inevitable disintegration of a once great democratic body
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Be here now, or else: lamentable effects of student 'presenteeism'
Forcing undergraduates to attend class retards their capacity to develop as mature, independent learners, warns Bruce Macfarlane
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Hang the expenses
In this age of austerity, delaying reimbursements owed to external examiners is inexcusable, opines Iain Stevenson
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Great big classes: 'we love 'em' - official
Our Deputy Head of Student Experience, Nancy Harbinger, has described research on student-to-staff ratios by Stephen Court as "dangerously misleading".Mr Court, a senior research officer at the...