Novel entitlements
I can sympathise with David Wilson and his anger with “manager-professors” (“Ersatz professors should be booed off the stage”, Opinion, 17 March). My concerns were epitomised in one university where...
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Power up, please
Dr Goshworthy “may well have found the remains of a savoury sausage in the fridge” (The Poppletonian, 10 March), but he is not right “to use Hotelling’s T test to supplement his analysis of variance...
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Campus sport and the aims of the games
Sport at university can be a draw for some, but not all students want to take part – or support the costs of their provision
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Wellcome criticises publishers over open access
Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals
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King’s College London: reaching out to the cultural sector
Deborah Bull tells Matthew Reisz about the scale of cross-fertilisation between her university and the arts
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Universities offer 1 per cent pay deal for 2016-17
Ucea says additional payroll pressures and market instability means uplift is ‘at the limit of affordability’ for many institutions
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Where next for world university rankings?
In the second blog from the opening seminar of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Robert Tijssen says league tables are meeting growing demand from institutions as well as students
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Theresa May ‘failed to prove’ language test students cheated
Judges rule in favour of two students who brought case after ETS fraud claims
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Rise in UK university dropout rate ‘disappointing’
Six per cent of young first degree entrants fail to advance to second year, Hesa data show
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Opening universities linked to increased GDP
Study suggests saturation point of higher education expansion is some way off
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Twitter creates ‘new academic hierarchies’, suggests study
US analysis questions link between Twitter success and scholarly merit, raising doubts about the use of social media data in altmetrics
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Higher levels of education ‘can benefit mobsters’
People contemplating a criminal career might do well to stay in and do their homework
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Women in Asia 'better at planning a business education'
Female students also 'quicker to assimilate than men' with others on course, says HKUST business school academic