Impact's impact could be the stifling of new ideas
LSE workshop participants warn of REF measure's 'deadening' effects. Rebecca Attwood reports
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THE World University Rankings
ߣߣÊÓƵ regularly writes about the effects of bureaucracy on the academy - quality assurance, research assessment, grant applications and the demands of quangos and other "stakeholders...
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UEA has got a real buzz about it since 'Climategate'
Affair has resulted in positive coverage online, an analysis finds. Sarah Cunnane reports
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#loveHE
As part of our #loveHE campaign, ߣߣÊÓƵ has asked followers on Twitter to tell us why they love the academyThis week's tweet of the week is: Am I the only person who would #loveHE a...
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Arts and humanities given reprieve at King's, but strike may go ahead
Management softens stance on compulsory job cuts after widespread criticism. John Morgan writes
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Third of world's elite 'bore' internet explorers
A third of the websites run by the world's leading universities are "boring" in their design - with some even described by reviewers as "puritan".Those were the findings of a research project...
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Scientists talk up teaching but still fail to promote it
Poll shows that despite equality claims, research remains the priority. Zoe Corbyn reports
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Charitable status doesn't mean our work is free
British higher education is an international "anomaly" for failing to charge a market rate to students, according to the former vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford.Speaking at a Council for...
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News in Brief
Living wageA capital campaignA coalition of faith-based organisations, unions and other community groups is to target higher education in its latest drive to persuade employers to pay their cleaners...
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Prayers, bangs and wimples
Nottingham is casting fresh light on medieval life, love and moral concerns. Matthew Reisz writes
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Truth hurts
Gary Day finds the omission of one victim's tale disturbing in the gritty realism of Five Daughters
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Election triumph for v-c's friend!
"I'm absolutely delighted by the result." That was the reaction of our vice-chancellor to the news that his old friend Sir Hartley Grossman, the Managing Director of Poppleton Pork Products, would...
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Different strokes
Funny how typing-pool notions persist in a Web 2.0 world, says Sally Feldman
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Research intelligence - Not so good with numbers
The Climategate affair highlighted the need for more statistical nous in many academic fields. Zoe Corbyn reports
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