Keep adding colour to academic online self-portraits
Junior scholars urged to develop robust profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to boost their careers and ward off risk of ‘shadow self’
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Global universities take pride in hiring home-grown talent
Academic inbreeding is not considered unusual or problematic in many countries, according to study
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Don’t be afraid: live in the light
Universities must have at heart a public ethos counterbalance to weigh against commercial interests and state diktat
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Theresa May’s overseas students plan ‘blocked’ by chancellor
Plan to force overseas students to leave the UK after graduation appears to have been blocked by George Osborne
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Michael Driscoll to retire from Middlesex University
Middlesex University has announced that Michael Driscoll is to retire as vice-chancellor, to be replaced by The Open University’s Tim Blackman
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Teacher training students removed from NSS
University teacher training students will be asked not to take part in this year’s National Student Survey after the government withdrew funding
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Fee hike ‘has not driven teaching improvement’, says UUK panel
Raising tuition fees to £9,000 has not helped drive improvements in teaching despite the government’s insistence it would improve standards
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Online class sizes ‘may not matter’
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Dyson latest to criticise May plans
James Dyson has become the latest to criticise plans mooted by home secretary Theresa May’s to send overseas graduates home after their course
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Glyndwr University v-c Michael Scott departs
The vice-chancellor of Glyndwr University has suddenly left the troubled institution
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Blog: ‘Impact Not A Bad Thing Shocker’
Philip Cowley and Robert Ford describe a step change in their discipline’s engagement with the electorate
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Borat creator Sacha Baron Cohen to be focus of academic symposium
The comedy of Borat and Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen is to be the subject of an in-depth study by university scholars
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PhD employment data 'need to be richer'
PhD holders may not be securing a job as easily as some governments believe
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THE podcast: 1-7 January 2015 issue review
Download the podcastThe 2014 research excellence framework, the effectiveness of making unconditional offers to students and university governance are all discussed in this week’s issue review...
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Postgrad teacher training places boosted in Scotland
Funding to increase teacher training places at Scottish universities by more than 8 per cent has been announced by the Holyrood government