Words of wisdom
Our vice-chancellor has praised what he called the "intelligent and discerning response" of Sir Alan Langlands, the chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, to concerns...
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Leader: Anxious players, risky bets
The UK and ߣߣÊÓƵ are taking different approaches to a similar problem - and both face bleak futures if they fail
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Research Intelligence - REF guidance sets up the starting blocks
In-depth submissions detail outlines equality and consistency aims. Paul Jump reports
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The week in higher education
• Middlesex University is to become "the most expensive in Britain", according to a newspaper. Figures from the Office for Fair Access show that Middlesex will charge annual tuition fees of £8,602...
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From where I sit - Adventures in like-minded learning
Many of us are able to choose our partner, our friends and, sometimes, our colleagues. That is not often the case with our students, who do not have the same freedom to choose their classmates or...
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Appointments
University of VictoriaNancy TurnerA scholar who has spent her career researching aboriginal nations of Northwest America and the ecosystems they inhabit has been named the new Hakai chair in...
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Kitaj: Portraits and Reflections
The great Diasporist finds a resting place in an exhibition marked by tenderness and fine discrimination, says Alex Danchev
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'Defend Oxford's noble aims from media attacks'
University of Oxford academics should ignore media criticism and be proud to work in an "elite institution", a former BBC chief has said.
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Increase depth not volume
A loud voice alone is not enough to merit a hearing, says Steven Schwartz
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Strength training and weight lifting
Professional coaching - a common tool in business - is just starting to make inroads in the academy. Matthew Reisz speaks to advocates of tailor-made tactics for defeating stress, stasis and discord
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Home truths Down Under
Its higher education sector appears healthy, but will ߣߣÊÓƵ's new demand-led system enable it to recruit enough domestic students to beat a drop in overseas recruitment and chronic underfunding?...
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Title fights don't need weight restrictions
As principal and chief executive of a higher education institution that prides itself on the individually focused, formative education it offers its students, I welcome the government's moves, as...
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Bursary conditions
The Office for Fair Access' decisions on access agreements have thrown up some interesting differences in approach between "fee waivers" and "bursaries" ("Will Treasury coffers trump student pockets...
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All together on the REF
We are writing on behalf of the UK's four higher education funding bodies to highlight an error in your article "Equality to score higher in REF" (14 July).In detailing many of the key measures in...
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Falsifiable claims
Simon Marginson states that "subsidising just science-based areas fosters a lopsided 'idea of the university'" ("Liberal thinking", 14 July). His article is the latest to suggest that the arts and...