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Immigration forecast: ridge of Right pressureIf academic colleagues are wondering why the sector’s extensive lobbying to get overseas students reclassified as non-immigrants is being so strongly...
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Research intelligence - Imperial’s westward momentum
Private and state cash feed research giant’s £1bn new campus in W12. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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Untangling creation myths
Artistic practice may count as research within the academy but it must be treated carefully if innovation is not to be stifled
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Planned access network’s familiar look
Comparisons drawn between access plans and scrapped outreach scheme. Jack Grove reports
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Moocs may cut out recruitment middle man
Free online courses may help universities to recruit more overseas students directly by helping to forge links with potential applicants, universities and science minister David Willetts has told an...
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Exit strategy: Wellcome head welcomes fresh challenges
Wellcome Trust head looks back at a highly eventful decade in charge. Paul Jump reports
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For-profit warning on numbers cap
‘Draconian’ numbers cap could snuff out nascent sector, coalition warned. John Morgan reports
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Please ensure that students drink responsibly
Universities are condoning excessive drinking among undergraduates and failing to offer them adequate pastoral care, according to a survey of UK headteachers.Anthony Seldon, master of independent...
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Shared services savings may be counted in millions
Waves of cost-cutting schemes expected once VAT exemption rules are clarified. Jack Grove writes
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Post-Higgs, meet the new god of small things
Some might regard taking over the running of one of the experiments that revealed the existence of the Higgs boson particle as akin to pushing the dustcart after the Lord Mayor’s show.But not Dave...
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Stress test identifies remote management’s downsides
Institution’s senior management pledges to tackle ‘stress-inducing’ culture. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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Professor says HR aware of bomber’s past
A London Metropolitan University professor suspended for his role in the appointment of a man convicted of terrorism has said it is “not credible” that the university’s human resources department did...
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Praise be to risk
Shoot first, mull later: Northampton chief speaks in praise of risky business. David Matthews writes
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Women liberated from history tell it like it was
An oral history archive that brings to life the voices of 60 women central to the Women’s Liberation Movement will be launched this week to coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March....
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The Dewey Dewey fog
On the shelf in staffing termsThere was confusion on campus last week over the eligibility of our library team for the 2013 ߣߣƵ Leadership and Management Awards.Although “...