Student Experience Survey: Great expectations
In trying to attract students, institutions must be clear about what they are offering - and careful not to make promises they can't keep. Jack Grove reports
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Student Experience Survey: Who's satisfied with their course?
Suzanne Bearne examines the reasons for a split between arts and science students
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Hands off the Russell Group!
Our vice-chancellor has responded vigorously to allegations that universities in the Russell Group receive disproportionate benefits compared with the rest of the university sector.He conceded that...
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What are you reading?
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Market forces turn one-trick ponies into one-stop shops
More traditional US institutions are playing for-profits at their own game by offering short professional courses. Jon Marcus reports
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Off Piste - Pools of Thought
Valerie Sanders has overcome her fear of water - as long as it's the indoor, chlorinated variety - to discover a love of swimming that brings out the worst and the best in her
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The week in higher education
• David Willetts escaped much of the flak in February's row over the appointment of Les Ebdon as director of the Office for Fair Access despite being behind the decision. Two months on, the...
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Leader: It's gone one step beyond
Funding bodies set the impact agenda, but university managers made it into a song and dance that everyone had to follow
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From Where I Sit - New Delhi, we have a problem
How times change. Some five years ago, the buzzword in Indian higher education was expansion. The 2007-12 Five-Year Plan - a mechanism by which, in part, the government formulated its economic policy...
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Odds and quads
This photograph features a scene from the 1904 revival at the Moscow Arts Theatre of Maxim Gorky's play The Lower Depths, about a group of impoverished Russians living together in a shelter by the...
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Appointments
University of BedfordshireJonathan Black-BranchThe new head of the University of Bedfordshire's School of Law believes it is well placed to be a "formidable force in legal education" after recent...
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Dundee tops THE Student Experience Survey as fees put focus on 'value for money'
Many universities are improving the experience for their students, as our survey shows. And they are achieving it by making the effort to understand their students’ particular needs. Zoë Corbyn...
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The delegate's tale
Christopher Bigsby on conferences’ picaresque perils and delights
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Albert Nobbs
Alison Oram on a tale of two very different 19th-century women who lived as men: the charming butch and the fragile androgyne
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Scientists appeal to cereal killers' reason
Academics at the Rothamsted Research laboratory have launched a direct appeal to protesters not to trash a trial crop of genetically modified wheat at a protest planned for later this month.