UCU Scotland Congress round-up
Delegates to the University and College Union Scotland congress passed an emergency motion condemning proposed job cuts at Keele University's School of Economic and Management Studies. Alastair...
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Researchers believe results culture puts quality at risk
Majority of academics fear funding pressures and targets will harm scholarly work. John Gill reports
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Innovation requires 'many free-thinking heads'
Innovation policy must focus less on edicts from central Government and more on enabling free thinkers to collaborate, David Cameron has said.The Conservative Party leader, speaking last week at an...
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Launch of REF to be delayed a year
Funding changes rescheduled to give more time to pilot new metrics-based system, writes Zoe Corbyn
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The Week in Higher Education
- As the London mayoral race warmed up with reports of Tory candidate and former Shadow Higher Education Minister Boris Johnson's encounters with drugs as a student at Oxford, and coverage of the...
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Don't ape others, says Hefce chief
Eastwood urges institutions to show imagination and prosper on their own terms. John Gill reports
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Minister calls for 'transparency' in admissions
Universities will have to submit "transparent" admissions and widening participation policies to the Office for Fair Access, Universities Secretary John Denham has announced.A published document for...
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Dearing disses Dragons' Den of university heads
Outlandish ideas and pithy put-downs were in short supply when BBC TV favourite Dragons' Den got a higher education makeover at the Higher Education Funding Council for England's annual conference....
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Top 10 researchers in environment/ecology based on total citations
Data from Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science Indicators, 1 January 1997–31 October 2007
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Engaging with students’ spirituality
Students’ religious convictions need not hinder the learning environment; treated respectfully and inclusively, their presence may enhance the experience for all
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Portfolio careers
Why settle for a single career when you could have six? Take a look at your skills, plan ahead and diversify
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Come back Zenodotus. All is forgiven.
Beware digi-evangelists and search engines, says Tara Brabazon. It is still real-life librarians, past and present, who remain the true custodians of human knowledge
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Agency workers: the Court of Appeal rules
Agency workers are considered to "miss out" because many important employment rights, such as protection against unfair dismissal, are only enjoyed by those who can bring themselves within the legal...
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Discipline and Punish
Poppleton University's successful history of outsourcing was given a new boost with last week's announcement that academic staff discipline was to be outsourced to HM Prison Service.Jamie Targett,...