Open University student finishes epic bike ride
For some, studying towards a maths degree might feel as challenging as a 22,000-mile bike ride
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QAA guides universities on information to students
Ensuring prospective students get accurate information on workload, class sizes and teaching is the aim of new guidance from the quality watchdog
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Universities ‘should give more IP to business’
Universities should give more intellectual property over to small- and medium-sized British businesses
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Net migration rise sparks fears of new clampdown
Visa applications from overseas students seeking to study at universities are up 4 per cent despite the government’s toughening of the visa regime.
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Graduate unemployment remains low over long term
Almost nine out of ten graduates from the class of 2008-09 are in work, according to new data, and just over 3 per cent are unemployed.
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Private institution passes QAA review
Richmond, the American International University in London has become one of the rare private providers to pass a full review by the quality watchdog.
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THE podcast: 29 August 2013 issue review
Download the podcastPlans to publish data on how many academics have teaching qualifications, a co-operative university in Mondragon, this week’s THE Culture section, and an informal note left in a...
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Obituary - Arthur C. Aufderheide
A “mummy doctor” who combined a distinguished career as a pathologist with pioneering research on the diseases of the ancient world has died.Arthur Aufderheide was born on 9 September 1922 and...
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Learning spaces need not be boring (or dear), says Bela Arora
Improving the learning environment needn’t break the bank, Bela Arora argues, but reflecting on its users is essential
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Mary Curnock Cook warns that in a world of competition, grade thresholds have become moving targets
Managing enrolments becomes a tall order when universities must aim at the ABB threshold’s moving target, says Mary Curnock Cook
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Remembrance of 1914-18 requires a touch more Dulce et Decorum Est than The Soldier, David Clarke argues
First World War centenary celebrations should invoke critical reflection rather than arouse a glow of national pride, asserts David Clarke
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Malcolm Gillies - All right for some
Recreating a two-tier system is only benefiting ‘the best’, says Malcolm Gillies
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Letters
UK still suffers trips of the tonguesYour editorial “A timely look under the bonnet” (22 August) is right to draw attention to the issue of language degrees, but one of the figures was inaccurate. As...
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Dramaturge to explain
Scholar Zoë Svendsen speaks to Matthew Reisz about Marlowe’s rhetoric, immersive theatre and the dramaturge’s role at the very heart of the play
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Devotional chapter and verse
One of England’s greatest devotional poets can now be better appreciated, writes Hugh Adlington