Obfuscatory measures
Tony Bruce of the Employers Pensions Forum (EPF) calls for "a rational debate" on the necessity for reforming the Universities Superannuation Scheme ("Debate, not threats", Letters, 10 June).The...
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Open and shut case?
It could be argued that THE's "Table of tables" is meaningless because it doesn't include The Open University: after all, its teaching quality and National Student Survey rankings usually score...
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People in glass houses ..
In his review of Massimo Pigliucci's Nonsense on Stilts (Books, 10 June), Lou Marinoff sees fit to launch gratuitous attacks on "hysterical feminists" and on Noam Chomsky. Marinoff writes of "the...
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Your financial future may be at risk...
Employers say the USS pension scheme must change to prevent financial crisis and government intervention. The UCU argues that proposed changes go far beyond what is needed. Ahead of a showdown...
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Day of the dead
Zombies are all the rage. They are the perfect postmodern symbol, a bloody canvas on to which any fear may be inscribed - but it's not all gloom and doom. It's the end of the world as we know it, and...
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24 June 2010
The pensions crunch - Unions and employers prepare for showdown over reform
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Funding crisis will change the nature of higher education, NUS president claims
Going to university may seem “increasingly fanciful” in the next few years as the funding crisis begins to bite, the new president of the National Union of Students has said.Aaron Porter told a...
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Glasgow staff vote to strike over planned job cuts
Academics at the University of Glasgow have voted in favour of strike action in protest at planned cuts.In a University and College Union ballot, 76 per cent of participants were in favour of strike...
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Prepare for budget cuts of 25%, Chancellor says
The government has announced that non-protected departmental budgets will be cut by an average of 25 per cent over the next four years.The announcement was made by the Chancellor in today’s emergency...
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‘The World’s Honors College?’
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Taught postgraduates commend teaching but want more feedback
Postgraduate students have praised the quality of teaching they receive, but many remain unsatisfied with the feedback they are given about their work.A total of 32,638 students responded to the...
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Manchester appoints Dame Nancy Rothwell as its vice-chancellor
First woman to lead the institution will bring her own ‘distinctive strengths’ to the role. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Higher fees would mean fewer students, survey suggests
The number of students aspiring to go to university would drop “dramatically” if annual tuition fees were to rise to £7,000, according to a survey.Of 2,700 young people who took part in an Ipsos MORI...
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Glamorous and ordinary
The Royal Family’s humanity and fallibility are strengths, not weaknesses, argues A. W. Purdue
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Disagreement between Scottish Funding Council and universities over knowledge-exchange cash rumbles on
Universities have refused to compromise in an ongoing row with the Scottish Funding Council over how to allocate funds for knowledge exchange.