Early departure for under-fire STFC chief
Keith Mason is to step down as chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council five months earlier than scheduled.
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Calls for research integrity watchdog dismissed
The government and the research councils have rejected suggestions that the UK needs a specific body to police research integrity.
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Concessions forced on student places plans
Funding chiefs have made a series of changes to the plans for student number controls in 2012-13 in an attempt to alleviate concerns about their impact on social mobility, “vulnerable” subjects and...
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Reading names senior civil servant as new v-c
The most senior education civil servant in Britain has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Reading.
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Foreign students fuel decade-long growth in numbers
The number of students at UK universities has gone up by almost a third in the last 10 years with those coming from outside the European Union more than doubling, according to a new report.
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Cambridge selects Lord Sainsbury as new chancellor
Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution...
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Market policies too extreme, Blair guru warns
A former director of the London School of Economics has used a House of Lords debate to attack the government’s higher education policies, saying they risk “chaotic consequences” including the...
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Glyndwr to validate private employment firm’s HE courses
Glyndwr University is to validate higher education courses run by the international recruitment company, A4e.The university said that the partnership would help people into work and tackle “social...
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Gove calls for students to be ranked on A-level scores
Research on the evidence for A-level grade inflation has prompted claims that elite universities are being damaged.
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Iraqi Kurdish scholars put gender theory to the test
Matthew Reisz on a UK-supported research centre helping tackle violence against women in Kurdistan
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Measure of free school meals is seen as 'unfair'
The switch from measuring widening participation via students' socio-economic classification to free school meal data is not fair, an admissions expert has said.
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Base expands Chinese link
A university aims to attract research investment with 'collaborative centre'. John Morgan writes
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MalaysiaWatchdog bites private sectorThe Malaysian government has fined a record number of private universities and vowed to tighten up oversight of the sector following concerns over academic...
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F1000 journals: rank hypocrisy?
Begun as a counterweight to journal impact tables, Faculty of 1000 starts its own. Paul Jump writes
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Open-access publishingCORE melds UK repositoriesA search engine that allows researchers to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories has been developed by The Open...