Les Ebdon pulls out of event attended by ‘loan-day lender’
England’s university access tsar boycotted a conference on student welfare after a controversial lending firm was also invited to speak
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Edinburgh and other research-intensives lose out in funding reshuffle
A major reorganisation of quality-related funding in Scotland will take money away from the “ancient” universities and hand it to newer institutions
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9 fascinating images from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society
First scientific journal reaches 350 year milestone
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Gender bias ‘rife’ in history departments, says report
Conditions for female academics in some university history departments “smack still of the 1970s”, according to a new report
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Overseas fee income grows again as share of total
The UK’s universities increased their income from overseas students once again last year, with their fee payments rising to 12.7 per cent of total income.
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Vince Cable: loss of polytechnics was a mistake
The conversion of polytechnics into universities has been lamented as a “poor decision” by the business secretary
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Augmented reality in higher education: five tips to get started
Matthew Ramirez demystifies the use of AR in university study
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THE podcast: Election Hustings for Higher Education 2015 special
Download the podcastThe general election takes centre stage in this week’s ߣߣƵ issue review podcast, which focuses on the recent Election Hustings for Higher Education.The weekly...
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University of Bolton pays £100K for strategy awayday
Taking all staff to lakeside hotel for an audience with the vice-chancellor is an ‘appropriate developmental investment’
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Access would get a ‘reboot’ under Labour, says Byrne
Shadow minister explains that his party would aim for graduate tax but plans to leave numbers uncapped
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V-c-governor relationships make the stage
Judith Ackroyd and Jill Robinson explain why they are dramatising material from confidential interviews with university leaders
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How to lead a university: a beginner’s guide
Vice-chancellors discuss their role and offer advice to aspiring university leaders
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Shake-up aims to build rapid reaction research force
ESRC intends revised training strategy to better support PhD students and to speed work on new issues. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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Grant winners - 5 March 2015
Royal Society/British AcademyNewton International FellowshipsAwarded to non-UK, early career postdoctoral researchers working across all disciplines of the humanities, engineering and natural and...
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Against the Troika: Crisis and Austerity in the Eurozone, by Heiner Flassbeck and Costas Lapavitsas
Vasilis Leontitsis weighs arguments for economic reform co-written by a scholar turned Syriza MP