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Universities' financial healthSector's credit score is goodUniversities in the UK are on a firm financial footing but face serious challenges, a study has suggested. The report, by credit rating firm...
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GM researcher despairs as three years' work destroyed
Leeds scientist hits out at 'zealots' and urges secrecy for future small-scale field trials, reports Zoe Corbyn
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The battles of 1918 go on
Ninety years after the suffragettes' first victory, June Purvis reflects on wars still being fought on behalf of women's rights
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Rear-view mirrors: reclaiming the past's foreign countries
Nostalgia was once taboo in academe but a new generation is unafraid to explore longing and loss, says Alastair Bonnett
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Just spell it like it is
Don't let students' howlers drive you mad, says Ken Smith. Accept their most common mistakes as variant spellings ... and relax
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Almost 200 academic staff fight against RAE exclusion
Figures show that one in three succeeded in overturning decision, reports Zoe Corbyn
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Overseas student awards scrapped
Loss of funding for scholarships 'will harm Britain's ability to attract the brightest'. John Gill writes
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The week in higher education
- "Breaking news about breaking wind: the world's oldest joke is a one-liner about flatulence," the BBC reported on 1 August. Researchers at the University of Wolverhampton have found evidence that...
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Young academics striving to fit in reveal high anxiety
Study highlights the trials of junior lecturers feeling the pressure to perform, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Student truths generate online hit
Film displaying undergraduates' lives and values is a YouTube success, reports Rebecca Attwood
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Reprieve for feminist threatened with retirement
Sheila Rowbotham, the renowned feminist writer threatened with compulsory retirement by the University of Manchester, has won a three-year reprieve.News that the professor of gender and labour...
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Forty UCU staff to go at a cost of £1 million
About 40 University and College Union employees are to leave this summer under a voluntary redundancy scheme.The departures, which will be completed by the end of August, are expected to cost the...
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Let students enjoy the power of print
Academics welcome a new trend for undergraduate journals. Zoe Corbyn and Matt Rooney report
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China nears UK in brain games
Britain is about to lose its place in the world table for research to the Asian giant, says Zoe Corbyn
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Pick-a-peer option 'undermining review system'
A growing practice that allows academics submitting papers to peer-reviewed journals to name individuals they would prefer not to be used as reviewers has come under criticism for undermining the...