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Twists, turns and tributes
The fate of best-laid plans: Ivor Gaber on high fees, elite casualties and the integrity of a sorely missed journalist
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Outsourcing plan hits the wall
London Met scales back shared services project amid financial uncertainty. John Morgan reports
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Public Trac of institutions' spending proposed
Details of how much money individual universities spend on research and teaching could be made public under proposals designed to create transparency in institutions' reporting of the costs of their...
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Union pours water on public asset 'fire sale'
Institutions with private equity links must face enhanced audits, says UCU. John Morgan writes
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Education 'must emerge as UK's stock in trade'
Universities' current charitable model of governance will prevent them from taking advantage of the higher education boom in emerging economies, David Willetts has argued.
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Academics 'dare to know' only in retirement
Older academics are taking early retirement to pursue "authentic study" because of modern constraints on researchers.
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Keep the cream, Willetts tells 'cash cow' business schools
Minister says cross-subsidisation of other units should be rethought. David Matthews writes
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'Stuff the owl' - shock statement
"It's exactly the type of over-wrought explanation we've come to expect from a sociologist."That was the brusque response from Georgina Edsel, our Deputy Head of Brand Management, to an analysis by...
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Freedom: just another word for bigger profits (1 of 2)
Terence Kealey deserves thanks for explicating a key point on which ministers prefer to maintain silence: namely, that the argument for privatising the UK's universities rests empirically on the...
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Freedom: just another word for bigger profits (2 of 2)
Roger Brown (Letters, 18 October) confesses he is fearful lest our most selective universities "detach themselves from direct state funding for teaching". But he does not tell us why.All UK...
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Let's talk numbers (1 of 2)
Sharing knowledge requires a precise language for each domain of evidence. The challenge is to reach balanced judgements across these domains in a world of uncertainties. For "evidence-informed"...
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Let's talk numbers (2 of 2)
The report by Ian Diamond on recommendations from the British Academy High Level Strategy Group on Quantitative Skills is surely to be welcomed ("Cash for quantitative and qualitative change", 18...
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First, mould the mind
I am in broad agreement with Nigel Tubbs' argument that we need liberal arts programmes in the academy ("The importance of being useless", 11 October), but I wonder whether calling them "useless" is...
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A reluctant royal host
At the age of 24, Richard Evans probably did not know much about the running of a university, but one would have thought that the passage of time would have given him the hindsight to realise that...