Study confirms physical proximity drives research collaboration
Academics base conclusions on a decade of MIT publications and patents
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Chinese scholars ‘win up to £127,000’ for papers in top journals
Analysis reveals extent of reward system for international publications, which could be distorting scientific incentives
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Russell Group on tuition fees: students should pay, but system needs update
Current fees system ‘isn’t perfect’, but it does a decent job of balancing the interests of universities, students and taxpayers, says Tim Bradshaw
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Andrew Adonis attacks ‘greed’ of £450K Bath v-c
Labour peer calls for funding council intervention on Glynis Breakwell’s salary
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Chief executive of UK’s Student Loans Company suspended
Steve Lamey put on leave ‘pending an investigation into concerns which have been raised’
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One in five alternative providers seeking degree-awarding powers
Independent Higher Education survey indicates that new providers will look to compete with established universities in future
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Andrew Adonis hits out at academics (and academics hit back)
Former education minister speaks out on vice-chancellors’ pay, ‘summer holidays’ and academics’ workloads
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Subra Suresh named as next Nanyang Technological University head
The former president of Carnegie Mellon University will lead the Singaporean institution from 2018
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Global Teaching Excellence Award: 27 universities on shortlist
UK institutions make up more than half the finalists for inaugural HEA/THE prize
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Applications to UK universities down 4 per cent, says Ucas
EU applications drop 5 per cent post-Brexit, as numbers of mature and nursing applicants also decline
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Sector leaders debate: how can universities weather the storm?
Round table discusses challenges of changing job market and political instability
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Interview with Geoffrey Alderman
We talk poverty, political correctness gone mad and the comfort of whisky with the outspoken historian
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Patricia Keely, 1963-2017
Cancer expert whose research was shaped by her experience of the disease remembered
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Cheap Modernism: Expanding Markets, Publishers’ Series and the Avant-garde, by Lise Jaillant
It was cheap reprints that took modernism from niche to popular, says Rebecca Bowler
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The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History, by Birgitte Beck Pristed
What’s in a book cover? Grace Lees-Maffei examines a history of graphic design in Russian fiction