Crumpets still for tea
Source: Getty“Here we go again.”That was the aggrieved reaction of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the news that Sir Jim McDonald, the principal and vice-chancellor of the...
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The week in higher education – 23 April 2015
“No player is bigger than the club,” runs the football cliché. Plymouth University has been given a similar lesson in an external report on its governance that was recommended by the Higher Education...
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Party lines and party lapses
What would politicians do for higher education in the next government? To find out, our panel gave them a grilling
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£8m funding cut could ‘destroy’ Northern Ireland’s institutions
Queen’s v-c speaks out amid plans to axe 236 staff and reduce student numbers by more than 1,000
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Private college approved for public loan funding despite concerns
QAA to review AA Hamilton College after identifying ‘a number of significant weaknesses’
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EU commissioner to mine untapped research riches
Carlos Moedas says gender and international diversity will yield gold
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Beware spread of laddism, universities told
Awareness of the impact of lad culture and the specific behaviours associated with it needs to be increased, conference hears
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Death may have many dates, conference hears
The Red Barn murder, organ donation and grave re-use were topics at an academic seminar
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Campus close-up: University of Sussex
Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit’s bold bid to find ‘radical solutions’ to global problems will cast the expertise net wide
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UK academy may need diversity quota, says US dean
Head of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business says that changing white male domination may require ‘something dramatic’
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UK’s big guns make a stand for research in Europe
Mass lobby in Brussels for Horizon 2020 funding ‘draws line in the sand’ on cuts
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Subject: how to master your inbox
Many academics suffer ‘email overload’, says one study, which also considers how to get a grip. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Labour’s manifesto plans: not perfect, but not bad
Danny Dorling looks at what the party’s promises would mean for higher education
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The seldom seen world of women without men
Films about female kinship and community are rare, precious exceptions to cinema’s enduring focus on groups of men, says Davina Quinlivan
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