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The AHRC wants help refining its proposals, but its integrated vision of research will not shift, Zoë Corbyn writesA new approach to the funding of arts and humanities research would effectively...
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Grant winners
THE BRITISH ACADEMYThe British Academy has awarded 23 conference support grants, worth a total of almost £160,000, to UK scholars. The grants aim to promote dialogue and exchange within the...
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Softly, softly is the way to defuse the madding crowd
The gentle touch is best when policing the masses, a UK academic has found. Melanie Newman reports
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Kin beyond our ken?
Bill George on data supplied by the Hubble Telescope and the implications for what may be found on extra-solar planets
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To remain competitive, we must play to our strengths in research
The UK's elite universities help industry and wider society to prosper. They need to be funded appropriately, argues Roy Anderson
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The week in higher education
A historian has claimed that the Kremlin may be behind a decision by a Russian publishing house to ditch his latest book, about life under Joseph Stalin.The publisher, Atticus, insisted it made a...
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Russell Group counts the cost as allocations slash the funding available per researcher
Amount for elite staff cut by £6,000, ߣߣÊÓƵ analysis shows. Zoë Corbyn reports
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It's clearly a place of excellence, but is it a pocket or an island?
When a large number of departments in teaching-led universities were discovered by the 2008 research assessment exercise to be producing world-class work, a new phrase quickly entered the higher...
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'Super panels' let arts off easy
Hefce board member says science subjects were held to higher standards, writes Zoë Corbyn
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MPs call for 'toothless' watchdog to be put down
QAA defends its reputation as select committee openly doubts its influence, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Rose-tinted spectacles come off ..
Rose-tinted spectacles come off as MPs hear about plagues of plagiarism and faulty washing machinesChairman Phil Willis began the latest session of the Parliamentary inquiry into university standards...
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Lib Dems declare their opposition to higher education expansion
Government's 50 per cent participation target criticised as 'simplistic'. Melanie Newman reports
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Colleges claim FE students lose out on places
Universities should be "compelled" to form partnerships with local further education colleges to ensure that the latter's students get a fair chance to enrol on their degree courses, MPs have heard....
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Liverpool may drop subjects ranked below 4* in RAE
Departments without 'world-leading' work face closure, says memo. Melanie Newman reports
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MBA exchange programme standards queried
A top business school has had a ticking-off from the university quality watchdog.In an audit at the London Business School, the Quality Assurance Agency said it could place only "limited confidence"...