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Watchdog bites down on HE in FE information
Report highlights required changes to prospectus and online statements. David Matthews reports
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Snap judgement: poor kids need mentors, not 'photo-op outreach'
Aimhigher boss calls for university commitment as programme nears end. Jack Grove reports
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Re-engage: Stuart's decree for visionless sector
Universities must re-engage with society about their role in 21st-century Britain as the government's White Paper has failed to visualise the future of higher education, a vice-chancellor has said.
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News in brief
ChinaVicious circle of debtChinese universities racked up debts totalling about £25 billion between 1999 and 2010, according to a senior official. Liu Liyun, deputy director of the research institute...
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILFellowship awards• Award winner: Stewart Field• Institution: Cardiff University• Value: £40,360Making sense of youth justice: a comparative study of Italy and...
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Liberal thinking
Simon Marginson on an ߣߣÊÓƵn seminar that considered the local implications of the 'English experiment' with humanities funding
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Will Treasury coffers trump student pockets?
Offa data raise fears that universities offering access bursaries will suffer, writes Simon Baker
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Hefce chief sees opportunity, not a crisis, in wake of White Paper changes
The idea that universities are about to be plunged into crisis by the decision to open up one in four full-time undergraduate places to full competition is "daft", according to the head of the...
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ERC must ditch ménage à trois for new 'friends'
The European Research Council should be reorganised and given more autonomy to end the sense of a "ménage à trois" involving its governing and executive branches and the European Commission.That is...
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Research funding: report affirms it should be based on excellence, not size
University Alliance claims focusing funding on large units may stifle research base. Paul Jump reports
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A plum role, yet few have a clue what a professor is supposed to do
Strong scholarship is needed to acquire the title, but what then? Matthew Reisz writes
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Academics see red over principal's 'retirement'
The University of Abertay Dundee has lost a pro vice-chancellor and a fifth member of its court during two weeks of turmoil after it announced the retirement of its suspended principal.
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In it for the money? UK needs to rescue overseas reputation
Sector must win back students put off by fees and visa rules, new UKCISA head tells John Morgan
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Private leaders say harmful immigration changes will prevent competition
Private higher education firms may be unable to fulfil the "vision" set out by David Willetts, the universities minister, of forcing competition on universities because new student visa rules could...