Ucas chief: contextual data are unreliable
Lowering university offers to reflect social deprivation may be misguided because decisions are being based on unreliable data, the head of the UK's admissions body has warned.
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Watch the birdie
The sole surviving chick from a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on a Nottingham Trent University building has been cooed over by more than half a million people since its first appearance via the...
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Teesside dean criticised for email guidance on 'maximising performance'
A university has defended a senior manager who encouraged staff to improve student-completion rates by resubmitting work, giving "generous" deadline extensions and passing assignments before they had...
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Income assessment: business stream benefits sector
UK universities made £1.1 billion through research contracts with businesses and non-commercial organisations in 2010-11, according to Higher Education Statistics Agency data.
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Sector may pay the price for privatised student halls
Pennywise, brand foolish? Warning that universities could rue loss of control. David Matthews writes
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Slumdogs, meet the millionaires
Matthew Reisz talks to the researcher who wants to find out if 'slum tourism' has any useful purpose
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News in brief
Exam howlersExplanation for the LehmanAs academics start to see the light at the end of their tunnels of marking, ߣߣÊÓƵ is making its annual call for entries to its "exam howlers"...
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Short and the long of it
The sector offers the total package: blue-skies insights for the future and industrial payoffs now, argues Nick Wright
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Without fees reform, our children would really feel the pinch
David Willetts defends the coalition's student finance policy as a fair, progressive model that will support the present and protect the future
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Exam? What exam?
"No one told me there was such an exam. If I'd known, I'd certainly have had a shot."That was the forthright response of our vice-chancellor to the recent claim by Fred Inglis in Times Higher...
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Leader: The best that money can't buy
The market has its limits. Whether it is good or bad depends on context, and all must be alert to ideological creep in the academy
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Research Intelligence - For all their sakes, and science's too
Response to EU law will spur the UK's leading role in reducing animal testing. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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The week in higher education
• Sharp-eyed readers who wondered why, in our 17 May issue, we reported that only one of two academics at Queen Mary, University of London who wrote a critical letter to The Lancet had apparently...
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From Where I Sit - Female role model
"We enjoy your classes," my seminar students said to me, "because you're not a real teacher." When I asked what they meant, they told me about the "real" classes of certain, named male teachers. "...