Can higher education’s golden age of plenty continue?
Funding is at risk now that universities may recruit as many students as they want, Alison Wolf argues
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Offa urges majority of universities to do more to widen access
Watchdog pushes higher education institutions to be more ambitious about admitting students from disadvantaged backgrounds
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How countries tie institutions’ cash to national goals
With fee rises in the offing for UK universities with ‘high-quality’ teaching, we look at a EUA study of performance-linked funding across Europe
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Grant winners – 16 July 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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Concerns over TEF link to funding as tight timetable looms
Sector questions how government will decide which universities can raise fees on 2017 timescale
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The week in higher education – 16 July 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Baby Boomers and Generational Conflict, by Jennie Bristow
Are ‘invented’ narratives the way to understand demographic shifts? David Willetts is unconvinced
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Giving a voice to the voiceless in Israel
Allowing Palestinian academics to speak Arabic in Israeli universities can strengthen identity, says Audrey Osler
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 16 July 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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Citation counts as peer review
In the continuing debate on the appropriateness of metrics as a tool in the evaluation of research quality, particularly for the next research excellence framework, citation counts are frequently...
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Visa martyrdom
I wish to draw attention to a major incoherence in government policy that threatens the future of all ministerial education colleges. The “user pays” principle has increased the cost of educating...
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Quality assessment assured
The Higher Education Funding Council for England welcomes Roger Brown’s contribution to the debate about future approaches to quality assessment (“A watchdog is for life”, Opinion, 9 July). The...
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Take care of innovation
Over the years, I’ve seen many reviews of academic-industry collaboration come and go, with varying degrees of success. I hope that the new Dowling Review will finally deliver real and lasting...