Put salaries on quality agenda
It's time to end the shabby gentility that pervades UK higher education, says Geoffrey Alderman. In all the rhetoric that has followed John Randall's resignation as chief executive of the Quality...
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Silence is surrender
If academics do not speak out for truth, they fail themselves and their jobs, argues Bob Brecher The past 20 years have seen a drastic depoliticisation of all aspects of British life, a phenomenon at...
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Why I... think we need a chair of sottismics to evaluate academic jabberwocky
People write the most daunting books without a thought for those obliged to read them. Only after toiling through mountains of recondite folly do we find the courage to pronounce them worthless. Some...
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Nice legs - shame about the teaching
Universities are putting increasing emphasis on student evaluation forms but, warns Zazie Todd, they can reveal more about gender biases than the quality of tuition. The last class has ended. The...
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Cutting edge: Digital Darwinism
The future of computers is not artificial intelligence, says Peter Bentley, but true intelligence, in the form of software based on human biology. Children's toys are extraordinary these days. Little...
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Lessons in misplaced trust and dollars lost
A US researcher with a passion for British beer is challenging assumptions that underlie many economic models - and finding that losing a few cents can be an unforgettable aid to classroom learning....
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Medical schools fear job losses and a knock-on effect on the NHS
Medics fear there could be job losses as a result of the government's refusal to fund the research assessment exercise in full. This would be politically disastrous for a government seeking to bring...
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Selective funding attacked by UUK
Universities UK has attacked the decision to fund research more selectively than ever before. The government has not provided enough money to reward improved performance, measured by last year's...
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Women inch into a male domain
Women and ethnic minorities are slowly muscling their way into the still largely white male field of academic economics, according to a report from the Royal Economic Society's committee on women in...
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Dundee firm widens access and draws talent
Cash machine giant NCR is giving £90,000 over three years to fund up to 30 computing and technology bursaries at the University of Abertay Dundee. The Dundee-based NCR Financial Solutions Group...
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Tube travellers' pollutant risk
London Underground passengers are regularly exposed to high levels of airborne particulate pollutants. The first comparative study of personal exposure to PM2.5 - fine particles of soot and other...
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Naked truth about Greece
Athletes' performing naked is considered a quintessentially ancient Greek custom. Scholars agree that widespread naked athletics began between 750 and 550BC, but little is known about the origins of...
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College bid mayset ball rolling
University College Worcester may be leading a new wave of bids for full university status from higher education colleges. Encouraged by the creation of the University of Gloucestershire, and buoyed...
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Scottish inventor is hot stuff
Researchers at Paisley University have helped a local inventor develop a device aimed at combating chip pan fires, writes Olga Wojtas. Jim McConkey's revolutionary fire-proof chip pan was this week...
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Dutch subsidy 'too high'
Dutch students should pay significantly more for their higher education, according to a government economic think-tank. In a study of the role of knowledge in the Dutch economy, published last month...