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How should research be assessed? Gareth Roberts urges those who have an opinion to contact his review panel Researchers, policy-makers and higher education managers face a collective challenge. We...
How should research be assessed? Gareth Roberts urges those who have an opinion to contact his review panel Researchers, policy-makers and higher education managers face a collective challenge. We...
While the government considers whether to allow top-up fees as a solution to the financial crisis facing universities, it is easy to forget why Labour introduced tuition fees. Thank goodness, then,...
An update has arrived from the search for the world's most outstandingly obscure journals. Jonathan Adams, managing director of consultants Evidence, was called in to validate the publications...
An email has arrived from Jeremy Bentham, philosopher and spiritual founder of University College London, who is campaigning against the speed of its proposed merger with Imperial College London....
Christopher Todd Brown is suing the University of California, Santa Barbara, after it refused him a masters degree. Mr Brown included the phrase "**** you" in the "disacknowledgements" section of his...
Vice-chancellors who pump their alumni for cash for scholarships have been set an example by Diana Green, who is funding one herself as part of Sheffield Hallam University's tenth anniversary...
Sunday Touchdown in Adelaide at 6.30am. Customs staff sport a spray of flowers as a sign of respect for the Bali bomb victims. The arrivals hall is packed with relatives of the ߣߣÊÓÆµns on the...
"The moral high ground of the uninvolved" is a term Sir Adrian Cadbury uses to refer to the popular debate on corporate governance. He should know. His Cadbury Report almost invented modern...
Imposing private-sector management on higher education is a mistake, argues David Robertson. Government comments on management quality in higher education have been followed by squawks of injured...
A union campaign to name and shame 'fat-cat' London v-cs is misdirected and dangerous, writes Deian Hopkin. Industrial relations in higher education is an odd business, especially where money is...
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