A reluctant royal host
At the age of 24, Richard Evans probably did not know much about the running of a university, but one would have thought that the passage of time would have given him the hindsight to realise that...
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Ready for business
I read with particular interest your article "Experiential enterprise: can-do students need hands-on teaching" (4 October) about the need for students to experience rather than just to learn about...
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Wild duck chases
Poppleton University's appointment of Henrik Ibsen (The Poppletonian, 11 October) reminded me of another unlikely university appearance from the early 1970s. On the request of a student, a public-...
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Long-term forecast: grey will go, leaving clear sky between elite and rest
Research will be focused in just 25 universities by 2025 as the UK sector becomes increasingly stratified, higher education experts have predicted.
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Economy may stall if country coasts on past postgraduate success
UK’s future prosperity ‘relies on boosting the quality of master’s and PhD research’. Paul Jump reports
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All or nothing: are vivas behind the times?
The system of examination for PhDs in the UK is a “scandal”, a conference on postgraduate issues heard last week.
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Found guilty until proven innocent over unapproved research claims
Professor says he was suspended by Sheffield for mentioning a touchy subject. Paul Jump writes
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Fearless symmetries
Sciences and the arts are re-entering each other’s orbits in a burst of boundary-blurring creativity, Arthur I. Miller observes
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Reports of the West's demise and East's rise are greatly exaggerated
The THE World University Rankings do not signal a power shift, but rather show just how far Asia still has to go, Michael Cox argues
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Conduct: becoming
As a long career closes, Steven Schwartz is eager to discover what lies ahead
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Research Intelligence - Measured weights and measures
ߣߣƵ's new funding chief aims for open access and a pragmatic, flexible ERA. Paul Jump reports
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Reforms' impact on deficit may be less than zero, says Hepi
Analysis with revised data and modelling points to 'serious' consequences ahead. John Morgan writes
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Owning A levels 'not advisable or feasible'
Universities dismiss Michael Gove's call for them to take charge of examinations, reports Jack Grove
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts stressed the importance of evidence-based policy as he participated in the official launch of a university-run website linking academics and policymakers. On 16 October the...