17 April 2014
Asset analysis - Universities’ financial health check: the bottom line on £9,000 fees
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World in brief - 17 April 2014
United StatesNot a man in institutional eyesThousands of people have signed a petition urging George Fox University in Oregon to allow a transgender student to live in a men’s dormitory during his...
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Howard Erskine-Hill, 1936-2014
A Cambridge professor of literary history has died
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Q&A with Jim Al-Khalili
We speak to the theoretical physicist, EPSRC RISE Leader and professor of public engagement in science at the University of Surrey
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THE Scholarly Web - 17 April 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Grant winners - 17 April 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsSciencesAward winner: Morgan BeebyInstitution: Imperial College LondonValue: £117,620Evolutionary pathways to rotary motors: evolution and mechanism of the...
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Data driven
As a member of the group that was formed by the Higher Education Funding Council for England to look into student information and which commissioned the report referred to in the article “More...
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Taxing graduates
According to Emran Mian, a graduate tax would solve none of the problems the current system of student loans faces (“A terrible policy at a terrible time”, Opinion, www.timeshighereducation.co.uk, ...
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If you can keep your head, when all about youAre losing theirs because of QAAIf UEG cannot survive without youWith Provost, Deans and PVCs at playIf you can wait, and not be tired by waitingHoping...
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Acts of mimicry
Now I get it (“The big business of remuneration”, Features, 3 April). Perhaps as a strategy to enhance their packages, vice-chancellors adopt the language, ideas and practices of their paymasters,...
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Placements position
I found the report on a survey that discovered that nearly all undergraduates say work placements and careers advice are valuable, but that less than half end up using them (“Work experience: it’s a...
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Imperfect policies
The suicide of Charlotte Coursier and the subsequent investigation into allegations of harassment have raised complex and very troubling issues for the University of Oxford in general and for the...
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There’s no shame in a business background
Would Vernon Bogdanor be as dismissive of his own field of government as he is of my fields of business and management when specifying the most important qualities required in a vice-chancellor (“Top...
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News in brief - 17 April 2014
Research partnershipsUK-Brazil match scheduledThe UK is to spend £375 million on a scheme to promote scientific ties between the UK and key emerging economies. The Newton Fund, announced last week by...