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Business, Innovation and SkillsDisquiet in the departmental ranksLess than a third of civil servants working in the government department responsible for higher education agree that the department is...
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News in brief
CanadaFrowns greet fall of CivilizationThe Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) has criticised a government decision to rebrand the Canadian Museum of Civilization and change its...
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Canada's take on UK Met case: a tough act to follow
Minister discusses licence retraction and backs hard line according to UKBA. Chris Parr reports
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Lone Star moots charges to make Moocs add up
The University of Texas system plans to offer degree credits for courses completed through the edX online-learning platform and charge for such courses - offering a potential new direction in the...
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Grant winners
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCILGlobal Uncertainties Leadership Fellowships• Award winner: John Wolffe• Institution: The Open University• Value: £287,682Religion, martyrdom and global...
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Twists, turns and tributes
The fate of best-laid plans: Ivor Gaber on high fees, elite casualties and the integrity of a sorely missed journalist
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Outsourcing plan hits the wall
London Met scales back shared services project amid financial uncertainty. John Morgan reports
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Public Trac of institutions' spending proposed
Details of how much money individual universities spend on research and teaching could be made public under proposals designed to create transparency in institutions' reporting of the costs of their...
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Union pours water on public asset 'fire sale'
Institutions with private equity links must face enhanced audits, says UCU. John Morgan writes
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Education 'must emerge as UK's stock in trade'
Universities' current charitable model of governance will prevent them from taking advantage of the higher education boom in emerging economies, David Willetts has argued.
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Academics 'dare to know' only in retirement
Older academics are taking early retirement to pursue "authentic study" because of modern constraints on researchers.
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Keep the cream, Willetts tells 'cash cow' business schools
Minister says cross-subsidisation of other units should be rethought. David Matthews writes
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'Stuff the owl' - shock statement
"It's exactly the type of over-wrought explanation we've come to expect from a sociologist."That was the brusque response from Georgina Edsel, our Deputy Head of Brand Management, to an analysis by...
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Freedom: just another word for bigger profits (1 of 2)
Terence Kealey deserves thanks for explicating a key point on which ministers prefer to maintain silence: namely, that the argument for privatising the UK's universities rests empirically on the...