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United StatesAnti-Semitic, not censorshipThe American Jewish Committee (AJC) has rejected a claim by one of its own officials that some complaints of anti-Semitic incidents on campus amounted to...
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UK aims to play South Korean catch-up
The Korean "goose father" stays at home, making the money needed to keep his children and their mother in a US nest so that his goslings can win places at elite American universities - while he earns...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL• Award winner: Vincenzo Vergiani• Institution: University of Cambridge• Value: £725,2The intellectual and religious traditions of South Asia as seen through the...
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Big AAB arts cohort may leave science in a funding wilderness
Top students' preference for 'cheaper' courses could jeopardise lab-based subjects. John Morgan reports
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Fees go unpaid as Gaddafi crumbles
Institutions face uncertainty over Libyan students' payments as regime collapses. John Morgan writes
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Build up the business assets if you want to get ahead
Experience of knowledge transfer and links with business have become increasingly important to academics trying to win promotion, according to a new survey.
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Starkey's a celebrity, get him out of here
Pundit's Newsnight performance gave history a bad name, scholars write. Jack Grove reports
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English students shun the high road and the low to favourite institutions
Popular Scots universities face the biggest drop in rest-of-UK applications, reports David Matthews
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Be quids in at our branches abroad, Nottingham tells students in the UK
The University of Nottingham is offering financial incentives to UK students to jet abroad to study at its overseas campuses, raising the prospect of a potential new growth area for British...
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Ucas head vetoes A-level bonuses
Curnock Cook calls Willetts' proposed premium for some subjects 'unworkable', writes Jack Grove
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Get a job or get (some of) your fees refunded
Undergraduates studying at a private business school have been offered a partial refund of their tuition fees if they fail to land a job within six months of graduation.
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Heat treatment aims to keep ancients alive
Celebrity support is building behind the fight to save a Classics course. Jack Grove reports
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Women's careersEquality efforts rewardedTen higher education institutions and science, engineering and technology departments have been commended for their work to support the careers of women. The...
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Get off your high horse
Academics should back a case-study approach to impact in the REF or risk getting far worse, says Claire Donovan
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The appraisal malaise
Dennis Tourish passes judgement on a system that invariably fails to give a clear picture of how well people are doing their jobs