Learn lessons from underneath the Ivy League
The UK's higher education system must become "less precious" and emulate the "messier" half of the US model if it wants to succeed, a leading scholar has argued in an analysis of the policy errors...
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For a fast-track business route to Asia, go via campus
Universities offer essential access to Asian market, Dearing conference hears. Jack Grove reports
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The LSE is bigger than Gaddafi
Libya's rulers forgive and forget UK links with despot. David Matthews reports from Morocco
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News in brief
Working conditions9 to 5? Don't think soTeachers and lecturers are more likely to work unpaid overtime than workers in any other occupation, according to union figures. The data, released by the...
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Excellence - but those missing out don't see it that way
Germany's elite programme has some Länder up in arms. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Taking the plunge
Uclan's new overseas campuses are a bold but carefully planned part of its expansion, maintains Malcolm McVicar
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A mistaken conception that the university system is under attack
David Willetts defends the government's higher education policies against Stefan Collini's accusations of reductionist consumerism
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It takes all sorts
Universities must embrace diversity to better serve the needs of the nation and local communities, argues Eric Thomas
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Diary
CardiffA Provincial LifeFirst published (in censored form) in 1896, Anton Chekhov's story My Life: The Story of a Provincial is one of his longest and most openly political. At its heart is a...
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The Pick - WOW - Women of the World Festival 2012
WOW - Women of the World Festival 2012Southbank Centre, London, 6-11 MarchFrom the co-founder of Mumsnet to a woman determined to reform India's worst prison, by way of activists, astrophysicists,...
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'We know nothing' - QAA
"Hands off the Quality Assurance Agency."That was the robust response of Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, to the news that the QAA has absolutely no knowledge whatsoever of 63 out of...
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Leader: Journey into the unknown
At the South Pole, David Willetts will have seen blank expanses that are better known than the private sector he wants to grow
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Research intelligence - Old hand aims to guide Nerc ship to shore
Chief executive tells Paul Jump how he plans to keep council afloat amid choppy financial waters
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Alumni take law into own hands over jobs 'hype'
Legal graduates sue alma maters after employment prospects fail to materialise. Jon Marcus reports