Alan Harrison, 1944-2012
A successful industrialist who went on to become an academic expert on operations management has died.Alan Harrison was born in Oxfordshire on 25 November 1944 and educated at Abingdon School before...
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Campus round-up
Goldsmiths/ExeterPluck of the IrishHistorians have set up a website to highlight Irish involvement in the First World War. The site includes a list of the war dead mentioned on family graves in...
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Grant application success rates, 2012
Research councils benefit from external and internal pressures. Paul Jump reports
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NUS' political fear of a history of violence
But leadership unease over mass demo lessened by hopes of campaigning dividend. John Morgan writes
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Spanner in the industrial works as engineering degrees lose traction
Essential discipline threatened by declining domestic and foreign interest
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Offa head attacks national scholarship programme
A scholarship scheme designed to encourage students from poor families to apply to university is not working as it was intended, the sector's access chief has claimed.
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Council launches its bid to defend UK universities
The Council for the Defence of British Universities has officially launched with a call for members, funding and ideas.
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Fees 'largest contributor' to rise in inflation
Higher tuition fees were the biggest contributor to a rise in inflation announced today.
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Business schools unveil plans for enterprise research centre
Two Midlands university business schools have won a bid to create a research centre that the government hopes will boost the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.
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Inside Higher Ed: History and hate speech collide
By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed
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Gove A-level plans under fire from universities
Plans for universities to control the content of A-levels are likely to prove expensive and βunworkableβ in many subjects, higher education institutions have warned.
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The only people worse at presidential elections than Florida: UUK forced to rerun nomination
Universities UK has reopened nominations for its presidency after a technical error in the process that led to the appointment of Sir Christopher Snowden, the University of Surrey vice-chancellor.
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Funding model for open access unveiled
The distribution of more than Β£100 million in research council funding for open access article fees will be directly proportional to how much universities have charged the councils for direct labour...
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Conveners, assemble!
'World's banker to poor' calls on sector to exercise moral power for local benefit. Matthew Reisz writes