Eric Thomas to retire as Bristol v-c next year
Sir Eric Thomas is to retire as University of Bristol vice-chancellor after 14 years in the role.
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University staff to strike for whole day over pay deductions
Staff at 11 higher education institutions are to walk out for a whole day in a protest of what they believe is “unlawfully deducted” pay.
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Access strategies postponed due to grant letter delay
Suggestion that wrangle over Access to Learning Fund is now delaying letter
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University staff strike again as next pay round approaches
University staff have walked out for the fifth time over this year’s “miserly” 1 per cent pay offer.
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THE podcast: 6 February 2014 issue review
Download the podcastStudent loan money going to private colleges, the rankings success of Caltech, the problem of gender inequality in science and our interview with Queen Mary University of London...
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THE podcast: higher education in Palestine
Download the podcastFahoum Shalabi, assistant deputy minister for higher education in the Palestinian National Authority, and Karim Tahboub, professor in the department of mechanical engineering at...
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Big data research to get £70 million boost
David Willetts is set to unveil £72.6 million of new funding to help academics unlock the potential of “big data”.
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Academic assessment gone mad
Has accountability to stakeholders got out of hand? Steven Ward imagines an Orwellian world of over-assessment
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A first-person history of mental illness
Historian Barbara Taylor’s account of the asylum system is woven into a memoir of breakdown and recovery aided by a ‘safe haven’, analysis and friendship
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Scottish ministers do the Highland mud-sling over UK split
Alistair Carmichael hits back at Michael Russell’s claims of xenophobia in Westminster
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Caltech: secrets of the world’s number one university
How does a tiny institution create such outsized impact?
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6 February 2014
Superstars - The story behind the world’s number one university
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World in brief - 6 February 2014
ߣߣƵTax measure ‘threatens’ fundingA body of leading ߣߣƵn universities has criticised the government’s “kneejerk, short-sighted” attempt to recoup more than a billion dollars in research...
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THE Scholarly Web - 6 February 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Martha J. Kanter
We speak to the distinguished visiting professor of higher education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development