London Met v-c paid £159K ‘in lieu of notice’ on leaving job early
Malcolm Gillies’ £453K final-year payment may make him last year’s highest paid vice-chancellor
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The great love and lust swindle
Canadian philosopher Clancy Martin tells John Kaag that the liar and the lover are two sides of the same coin
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Colleagues pay tribute to Sir David Watson’s career
Academic’s ‘formidable expertise and knowledge’ and ‘unique voice’ remembered
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Student housing shortages: battle to end close quarter struggles
With the recruitment cap lifting, accommodation is a hot issue
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Teacher training: a missed opportunity
Their lack of protest over reforms means that universities have lost the chance to transform the sector, laments Anthony Kelly
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Trinity Laban: engaging audiences with a visionary zeal
CoLab project is putting a new twist on art forms
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A chance to rethink the current model
Ministers and the higher education community are rightly asking tough questions about quality assurance and the safeguarding of public funding now that private providers are offering degree courses...
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The week in higher education - 12 February 2015
The battle to protect academic freedom in the counter-terrorism and security bill seemed to be nearing a conclusion this week after final amendments were agreed by peers. Having previously inserted...
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Safety first
“I think we have at last found the ideal speaker.”That was how our newly appointed Head of Safe Space, Gerald Bowdler, described the latest development in our university’s long search for a public...
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12 February 2015
Expect the unexpected - Danny Dorling analyses the present and future of student admissions
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At risk: higher education’s electronic brain
The UK university sector’s digital network is unique in the world. It’s not just cost-efficient for subscribers but priceless, says Martin Hall
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Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism, by Bartow J. Elmore
Isabelle Szmigin on the not-so secret formula underpinning a highly profitable global model
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Like it’s going out of fashion
Institutions splashed the cash to stay competitive, resulting in a REF price tag that may be far higher than the official estimate
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You can never go back
Reading the results of the Best University Workplace Survey 2015 (“Just the job?”, Features, 5 February) reminded me of when I worked in a new university in England. We were expected to undertake...