Can the spirit of the Robbins report be revived?
Gareth Williams laments the decline of higher education research since its heyday following an influential report
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Boost enterprise partnerships, GSK head tells universities
Witty recommends more collaboration, more funding and more weight for impact in REF
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Aptitude adjustment
More and more prestigious US liberal arts colleges are making it voluntary for applicants to submit standardised test scores and say they will not favour the high achievers who do submit. These...
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Digital Dieting: From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness, by Tara Brabazon
Sandra Leaton Gray on healthier options for e-junkies
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US lecturers move into student dorms to aid retention
Faculty-in-residence keen to offer advice and a listening ear
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How can universities support students to work harder?
A new generation of ‘dual-intensive’ universities can do the job, argues Edward Acton
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A leader’s role as public intellectual: approach with care
Steve West warns that vice-chancellors’ duty to engage in debate is not straightforward
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Oxford admissions head sounds warning over exam changes
Plans to overhaul A-levels will have “tragic consequences” on fair access efforts, the University of Oxford’s admissions head has said.
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Universities awarded AHRC PhD funding
Seventy-five institutions have been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new PhD funding scheme.
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University staff to strike over pay
University staff will hold a one-day strike on 31 October in a row over pay
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Part-time study decline ‘set to continue’, warns key report
The dramatic decline in part-time students will continue this year, according to a report that calls for an “urgent push” to promote such study.
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UK boasts ‘biggest bioscience cluster in Europe’
The UK is the “biggest biosciences cluster in Europe” a report by the BioIndustry Association has said.
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REF impact weighting should be 25 per cent, says Witty
Impact should be given a weighting of 25 per cent at the next research excellence framework, the author of a government-commissioned review has said
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Self-deprecating lecturers contribute to unrest, suggests study
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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UK ‘overtakes Japan’ on Chinese collaboration
The UK has overtaken Japan to become China’s second most prolific research collaborator.