Analysis backs open-access path for scholarly publishing
Jisc report says publishing landscape should be reshaped to deliver better value, writes John Gill
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Original features
The original women's college at what is now Royal Holloway, University of London, was established by Victorian entrepreneur Thomas Holloway in 1879. The Founder's Building, with its celebrated clock...
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News in brief
Degree standardsMore firsts and upper secondsThe proportion of students gaining a first or an upper-second degree has crept up again, official statistics show. Sixty-one per cent of graduates in 2007...
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The University of Cambridge has become the most spectacular victim of the Economic and Social Research Council's tough policy on PhDs. The council has put the university on its blacklist of...
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Students, get it off your chest
Suggestion boxes could be used to encourage overseas learners to complain. John Gill reports
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Overseas briefing
USBrandeis sells pop art valuablesA university is selling its art collection to help it survive the recession. Brandeis University, Massachusetts, is closing its art museum and selling all 6,000...
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Applicants are denied shelter from the storm
Universities can't cope with higher demand as the recession bites. John Gill and Jon Marcus report
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Ethiopian faculty struggle with harsher workloads
Concerns about heavier workloads and the "managerialist" culture of universities are not the exclusive preserve of the UK - they are also being voiced in Ethiopia.The worries are set out in a paper...
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Man of action
Richard Byrne has been serving in Helmand province, encouraging farmers to grow crops other than the poppy
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Appointments
A former Welsh rugby union international has been made a dean at Leeds Metropolitan University. Gareth Davies, who was capped 21 times by his country, has been appointed dean of the Carnegie Faculty...
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'We train artists, not passive vessels or mere pretenders'
Good acting is built on reflection, not reality-TV dreams, the head of acting at Central School of Speech and Drama tells Melanie Newman
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MPs versus v-cs: university heavyweights parry blows
The Select Committee fails to draw blood in its probe of the state of higher education. John Gill reports from ringside on the feints and footwork
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Dash for cash will encourage FE colleges to take university route
A drive for additional funds will encourage further education colleges to seek university status, a college head has told a committee of MPs.Asked by the MPs why successful colleges would seek to...
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'HE in FE' holds its own in National Student Survey
Students rate the feedback they receive in further education colleges, writes Rebecca Attwood
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This city isn't big enough for the both of us
Swansea may not be big enough for two universities, according to Richard Davies, vice-chancellor of the University of Swansea.Speaking to ߣߣÊÓƵ last week, Professor Davies said that...