Humanities and 'soft power' on the Going Global menu
Issues including whether the humanities have a place in 21st-century nations will be among those discussed at the British Council's Going Global conference next year, it has been announced.
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Business schools 'failing' mid-sized firms
Business schools are failing to help mid-sized companies as much as they could and so are holding back the UK's economy and society, a new report has concluded.
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Ebdon urges schools to ignore "dreadful snobbery" about universities
Schools should ignore the "dreadful snobbery" that puts pressure on them to send as many pupils as possible to elite universities, according to the head of the Office for Fair Access.
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College of Law becomes UK's first for-profit university
The College of Law has been granted university title and will be known as the University of Law.
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News in brief
'He Jargon' competitionAward-winning waffleThe University of Leeds has won the inaugural Times Higher Education "HE Jargon" competition to uncover the worst examples of management waffle circulating...
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News in brief
United StatesTown, gown and frownsA US university has been urged by the mayor of its municipality to build bridges with the community as it searches for a new president. The "town and gown"...
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Grant winners
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHEfficacy and Mechanism Evaluation programmeAward winner: Costantino PitzalisInstitution: University of LondonValue: £1,002,635Developing a novel, biopsy-based...
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Red top reckoning: end press licence to bully and lie with impunity
Politicians, pay heed: if you bottle the post-Leveson chance to reform the nationals, heaven help British public life, warns Steven Barnett
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For-profits seek access to public funds
FoI reveals moves and countermoves in struggle for state cash and influence. John Morgan writes
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Company policy: where Uclan restructure plans lead, post-1992s may follow
Post-1992 universities could begin to change their legal status and open up to private investment in the wake of the University of Central Lancashire's application to the government to become a...
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It's a matter of shelf esteem
Fears of a Starbucks future raised as Oxford debates Bodleian changes. Matthew Reisz reports
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Secret suffering as mental health stigma silences anxious voices
Fear of appearing weak may discourage staff and students from disclosing illness. Jack Grove writes
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Mind, don't dismiss, the BME attainment gap
Universities are more keen to "explain away" the attainment gap between white and ethnic-minority students than to address the problem.That is the view of Aneez Esmail, associate vice-president for...
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Union outs institutions with 'climate of fear'
UCU survey paints picture of deteriorating workplace environment. Jack Grove reports
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V-cs decline to enlist in defence of the realm
A number of UK university vice-chancellors invited to join the Council for the Defence of British Universities ignored correspondence from organisers, a founding member of the council has said.Sir...