Income boost for Welsh universities
Wales’ institutions gain funds as a result of cross-border flow under new fees regime
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Year of the Welsh dragon
University of South Wales is a behemoth with plans to become even bigger
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Half of theses fail to show how they advance to knowledge
Many doctoral candidates do not make clear their work’s scholarly contribution
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Ding dong: impact 'chaos' lurks on the doorstep
Paul Manners worries that rush to tell research stories turns academics into salesmen and undermines collaboration
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News in brief - 18 April 2013
European Access NetworkWorld-widening participation aidA global network of students, academics, politicians and business leaders has been launched with the aim of promoting access to university for...
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News in brief - 18 April 2013
New ZealandVictory for VictoriaVictoria University of Wellington has claimed the top spot among New Zealand’s institutions in the research rankings released by the country’s Tertiary Education...
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Gelmini law's an ass: EU, please use bridle
Thank you for shedding much-needed light on the situation of the lettori (“‘Race law’ cited while pay for lettori is cut in half”, News, 11 April). I am one of the teachers just hit by the 50 per...
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Iron emancipator
Sir Peter Scott’s and John Akker’s wholly dismal view of Margaret Thatcher’s impact on the sector (“Split persists on Thatcher legacy”, 11 April) may not be shared by all those who were working in UK...
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Charter flight to equality
Despite the diligent work of many higher education institutions and sector organisations, including the Equality Challenge Unit, systemic discrimination on the grounds of race persists in the academy...
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State-sanctioned inequality
Your comprehensive coverage of the “wealth check” of UK higher education institutions highlights the blindingly obvious: namely, that there is increasing institutional inequality across the system (“...
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Simple plan far too simple
I was not at the conference at which “expert” Tom Green made his remarks about university marketing, so perhaps I missed the insights from which his recommendations were derived (“Message received:...
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Right-sided spooks
I thank Matthew Feldman for his generally positive review of my book British Writers and MI5 Surveillance, 1930-1960 (Books, 4 April), but certain areas require correction. For one, he is inaccurate...
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Correlation limitations
The fact that at the institutional level, total quality-related (QR) cash from the Higher Education Funding Council for England and total research council funding are highly correlated is neither new...
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Peer performance
Further to the article by Alan Ryan (“The best of the lot”, Opinion, 28 March): isn’t he describing the House of Lords as was? A random selection of the good, the bad and the indifferent - with peers...
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Middle class? Moi?
Source: AlamyClass acts: a little taste of the finer thingsNew research findings from Dr Nicola Ingram of the University of Bath show that some middle-class students at the post-1992 University of...