Willetts pledges partial grant to encourage overseas study
Minister keen to improve global mobility ranking, but students will face costs. Matthew Reisz writes
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'Univer-cities' told to learn some home truths
Although universities are in an excellent position to drive economic growth in their regions, too few institutions see it as a priority, according to a thinktank.The Tony Rich Lecture and Debate,...
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Signs of the Times
A dozen of the huge LED advertising screens in New York's Times Square are coordinating for the first time to bring video art created by an academic at the University for the Creative Arts to...
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Disgruntled ex-lecturer and his muse show stomach for a fight
Sarah Cunnane on the former Kingston employee taking terpsichorean aim at a 'circle of corruption'
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Marginal incentive: coalition 'blinks first in game of chicken'
Fees could rise at lower end as pool shrinks, while ABB allows expansion at top. David Matthews writes
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I don't see a plan at all, Lampl says
Government's confused and 'negative' social mobility strategy attacked. Rachel Williams writes
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Bottoms up!
"Hands off our northeastern Scottish colleagues."That was the vigorous response of Janet Fluellen, our Director of Curriculum Development, to all those critics who have lined up to attack the...
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Research intelligence - Hands off the funding sacred cow?
As the next spending review looms, opinion is split on keeping the current set-up. Paul Jump reports
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Full-court press hits athletics as students count the costs
Universities are beginning to find the price of sporting glory too high to bear, writes Jon Marcus
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The week in higher education
• Academics at a Jesuit university in the US who challenged a leading Catholic Republican politician over his proposed budget cuts have earned themselves a pious response. Staff at Georgetown...
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Leader: All for one, or none for all?
An every-university-for-itself stance in the face of more austerity could leave higher education worse off as a sector
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From where I sit - Mission creep tarnishes MBA
The MBA landscape in Germany has always been somewhat troubled. For a start, the degree was actually prohibited until 1990, and since then, the road has been a rapid but rocky one. Recently, articles...
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Odds and quads
These images, held in the archives of the University of Strathclyde, come from the papers of William J. Ireland (1924-2002), a graduate of the Scottish School of Physical Education who went on to...
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Appointments
Royal Holloway, University of LondonPhilip SteinbergAn expert in Arctic geopolitics will this month swap the Sunshine State of Florida for the Home Counties and a prestigious fellowship. Philip...