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Employers and funders must involve staff in debates about potential changes in the sector, argues Michael MacNeil
Employers and funders must involve staff in debates about potential changes in the sector, argues Michael MacNeil
Universities have the potential to lead the way to a high-tech, economically robust future for the UK, according to James Dyson

Gary Day on the Siberian Jesus, Omar Khayyam and the ever-present divide between the rich and the poor
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"The time has come to root out this new challenge." This was the no-nonsense declaration from Jamie Targett, our Director of Corporate Affairs, as he inaugurated the newly formed Irony Sub-Committee...
Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the interdependence of teaching and research
The co-founder of Evidence is continuing his work to improve research-data analysis. Zoë Corbyn reports
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The government now wants even postgraduate education to serve industry by inculcating business awareness and skills training
I recently came across an astounding German book, Professor Untat (2007), by Uwe Kamenz, a professor at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and Martin Werle, a management consultant...

A British expert on American history who was widely acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic has died.Jack Pole was born in London on 14 March 1922 and attended a progressive school in Hampstead.After...
ߣߣÊÓÆµ's list of vice-chancellors' pay and benefits ("It was fun while it lasted", 1 April) makes for depressing reading, coming as it does in the same issue as Iain Pears'...
Writing as both a taxpayer and a parent of a student, I'm infuriated by the way vice-chancellors have tailgated on to the inflated salaries paid in the private sector. This greed has done much to...
In the 1960s, university vice-chancellors were paid 30 per cent more than the professors in charge of departments. Today, if a vice-chancellor's salary is three times that of the top professors on...
While the numbers in the average salary tables published last week may well be accurate, the information content of the tables is low, if not zero.Having first discarded the distortions for London...