The week in higher education
“Boring” university lectures are likely to be the first victims of the rise of online learning, according to Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. Speaking to BBC Online on 1 May, Mr Wales suggested that...
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Control group
A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports
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Kick-starters: knowledge transfer in practice
More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found.Only 43 per cent of the almost 22,000 academics questioned for the...
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Federal authority
Vice-chancellor believes ‘radical solution’ is the way to rise up the rankings. John Morgan reports
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Alan Ryan - Sooner rather than later
Preparing students for higher education must begin sooner, says Alan Ryan
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Mean but purposeful party girls
US researchers who spent time living alongside sorority students at a Midwestern university observed a depressingly divisive class culture where partying is a vocation, status eclipses study and...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Ireland’s private leader aims to be accommodating
Institution targets untapped foreign market
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Getting to know you
Engine of social progress“What local community?”Just one of the remarks made to our Town-Gown committee as they examined the university’s relationship with the city of Poppleton in the wake of survey...
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Research heavyweights deny ‘ganging up’
A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports
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Can Hefce still land a ‘big beast’?
Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader
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Research intelligence - Northern apprentice aims to become master
Huddersfield fosters entrepreneurial and academic excellence side by side. Paul Jump writes
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Kick-starters: knowledge transfer in practice
More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found