Capital idea, but we'll be buried if the market crashes
Dissenters raise concerns over Cambridge bond issue's property element. John Morgan reports
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Cash for quantitative and qualitative change
A £15.5 million fund aimed at promoting the teaching of quantitative social science has been unveiled.Departments or groups of departments will be able to bid for up to £350,000 a year over the next...
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Share of the public piggybank
UK elite's proportion of income from state sources
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Decimation explanation: theories expounded for colleges' shortfall
Conference considers reasons for 10 per cent drop in HE in FE numbers. David Matthews writes
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USC aims to reap what fees rise has sown
A leading US university has seen a "stupendous" increase in interest from UK students since the hike in tuition fees introduced by the coalition government.Katharine Harrington, vice-president of...
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Nice publicity, shame about the pedagogy
Take Mooc claims with a pinch of salt, manager advises technology conference. Chris Parr reports
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For vocational holes, a bit of poly may be the right filler
MP and historian Tristram Hunt tells John Morgan about reviving lost skills and improving teaching
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Seals culled: symbolic shift signals rise of the market
But losing the owls from university brands may not be such a wise move. Matthew Reisz reports
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'Of' is off - official
"This really is the big one!"That was how Roger Placement, our Deputy Director of Logo Development, described the fundamental shift in university nomenclature that will be introduced to all our...
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Rash arguments for an Ivy League future
Terence Kealey's argument that because of the prestige of the US Ivy League institutions, our most selective universities should emulate them by forswearing direct state funding for teaching is wrong...
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Administrative errors (1 of 2)
Regarding Sir Richard J. Evans' opinion piece about the disastrous royal visit to the University of Stirling in 1972 ("A right royal rumpus", 11 October): Lord Wheatley was the chairman of Stirling's...
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Administrative errors (2 of 2)
My late colleague John (Jackie) McKie hit the headlines "toasting" the Queen during the latter's visit to Stirling in 1972, yet it would be a pity if that incident were to constitute his sole epitaph...
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Mass engagement
Within just a few months, the term "Mooc" (massive open online courses) has jumped from one used by online-learning cognoscenti to the stuff of Times Higher Education opinion pieces by Alan Ryan ("...
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Unfair comparisons
Having recently observed at close hand the stress placed upon one student studying the International Baccalaureate and seeking admission to a University of Cambridge college, I would advise state-...
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Don't you forget about us
The introduction of a master's in public policy at the University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government ("Candidates, follow our curriculum and prepare for global government", 11 October) is...