Time spent abroad may help UK students empathise with overseas peers
Nottingham Trent pro v-c aims to promote friendships across nationalities
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BIS shelves bids for degree-awarding powers during rules review
Applications suspended until audit of processes and guidance is complete
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Fall in graduate earnings premium
The graduate earnings premium has fallen over the past nine years, new data suggest
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Tackle laddish conduct more vigorously, OIA head says
Universities must address campus ‘drink culture’, whose consequences are reflected in adjudicator’s caseload, says Rob Behrens
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Rise in unconditional offers causes concerns about fairness
About 10 per cent of admissions staff say their university offers places over the phone on predicted grades alone, UCU survey finds
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Teaching grant may be sliced to make the cut, some suggest
Time needed to shift to maintenance loans means BIS savings will have to come from elsewhere, sector believes
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Losing our place in the vanguard?
Senior figures worry that the UK is lagging behind the innovators and entrepreneurs pushing the frontiers of higher education
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Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham – 18 June 2015
Comic conclusions on the world of doctoral study
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Being human is good for science
Sir Tim Hunt made some spectacularly inept remarks about women in science, which are rightly being thoroughly ridiculed. He taught me as an undergraduate, and I have run into him over the years since...
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Don’t take it for granted
The article on grant income targets identifies Abertay University as one of 11 universities that set “grant-winning goals” for individual academics (“Grant goals set for staff at one in six campuses...
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Irregular regulations
From reading G. R. Evans’ piece on outsourcing the duties of the Quality Assurance Agency, it seems that others are beginning to notice that the changes being made to our assurance systems contain...
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Building a global network
The article on allowing British students to use state loans for fees abroad struck a chord with me (“David Willetts: allow student loans to be used abroad”, 2 June). I, too, spoke at the British...
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The library lives
Laurie Taylor provides his usual incisive perspective on current issues in higher education by poking gentle fun at the changing roles of academic librarians (“The Dewey, Dewey Fog”, The Poppletonian...