Leadership goal: more women at the top
The sector would do well to consider setting a target for the proportion of women heading universities, says Simonetta Manfredi
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1 January 2015
Jockeying for position - REF 2014 rerun for research intensity
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David Stoddart, 1937-2014
One of the world’s leading authorities on coral reefs has died
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Q&A with Neha Pathak
We speak to the recipient of the ‘Ultimate Game Changer’ prize at the Cosmopolitan Ultimate Women Awards. Plus the latest higher education appointments
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World in brief - 1 January 2015
CanadaGay bar keeps graduates from BarThe government of British Columbia has revoked its approval for a new law school at Trinity Western University after several Canadian law societies opted not to...
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Andrew Blake, Edward Hughes, R. C. Richardson, James I. Rogers and Peter J. Smith...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Grant winners - 1 January 2015
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Stuart ParkerInstitution: Newcastle UniversityValue: £1,038,561Acute hospital care for frail older...
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News in brief - 1 January 2015
Terror billHefce may monitor complianceEngland’s funding council should take on new powers to ensure that universities and private colleges comply with duties to prevent people being drawn into...
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2014: the year in higher education
Many vice-chancellors may be looking forward to 2015 with some trepidation given the trouble there was at the top in 2014. The news of exits began in March, when Chris Higgins said he would be...
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New Year: the hopes and fears
With the fever of REF results subsiding, we contemplate what 2015 might hold in store for higher education
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Silent treatment
Roger Morgan in his review of Nye: The Political Life of Aneurin Bevan by Nicklaus Thomas-Symonds (“Mining a rich seam of history”, Books, 11 December) informs us that in 1951 Bevan “demonstrated his...
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Languages divide
I applaud the argument that a deeper understanding of foreign languages is essential in international negotiations, be they commercial, political or cultural (“The words are not enough”, News, 11...
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Medicine, a distant dream
We are all limited by our imagination. And our imagination is contained by experience, our own and that of those known to us. Therefore someone born into an environment where no predecessor has been...
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USS guesswork
We write as members of the Universities Superannuation Scheme who are concerned that negotiations over the future of our pension scheme are based on the projection of a very large deficit based on an...