The quality code: QAA discloses 'toolkit' rejig
Standards overhaul suggests a move from guidance to obligation. Simon Baker reports
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Widening participationRetiring v-c: elite still failing poorNew universities are still key to widening participation and elite institutions are falling short in this regard, according to an outgoing...
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Free app has the cite stuff for REF
LSE professor favours Publish or Perish over peer review for evaluation exercise. Paul Jump reports
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Do the rights thing
Don't be put off by the Commission on a Bill of Rights, say Colin Harvey and Colm O'Cinneide - we must engage with it
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White Paper: disquiet as sector-wide vision turns into 'numbers control'
Experts fear race to the bottom and a squeezed middle. John Morgan and Simon Baker report
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White Paper: more power for Hefce to tackle failings
Overhaul will turn funding council from grant-giving quango into 'classic regulator', writes Simon Baker
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'Well-regarded' providers in line for less frequent, light-touch inspections
The inspection of universities by the standards watchdog should move towards a "risk-based" approach that reduces red tape for "well-regarded" institutions, the government's White Paper on higher...
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White Paper: small colleges to get a shot at title
White Paper seeks to ease restrictions on what can be called a 'university'. Simon Baker reports
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UCU joins strike action over pension threats
The University and College Union is set to link up with public sector unions in a national strike over pensions - but one vice-chancellor expects to count the number of strikers "on one hand".
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Trial by fire will prove our mettle, insist v-cs
Majority expect to emerge stronger, but a short tail fear reforms' negative impact, writes Simon Baker
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Leeds Met's mane event ropes in care-leavers
Leeds Metropolitan University is pursuing its widening participation agenda by calling on the services of a former horse whisperer who offers "equine-assisted training" to students and staff.The...
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The big picture show
The White Paper lacks vision: the coalition's short-termism must give way to long-term thinking, Libby Hackett says
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Leading answers: this one's optimistic, this one fears the market...
Mike Boxall and Paul Woodgates consider the attitudes to the new academic order revealed by PA Consulting's latest v-c survey
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Top research institutions in plant sciences and mycology
The table (see related file, right) features the top universities and research organisations in the field of plant sciences and mycology based on highly cited papers published during the period 2000...
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Diary
BathOmens and InspirationsTo celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Great Comet of 1811, observed by William Herschel (1738-1822), and the opening of its new Caroline Lucretia Gallery, the Herschel...