Campus round-up: 21 February 2013
A chance to learnAn academic has been honoured for his role in founding a school in Nepal for children with no prior access to education. Kevin Fossey, a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton...
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News in brief
New ZealandFee increase bid rejectedThe head of the body that represents Maori higher education students in New Zealand has welcomed the government's decision to turn down a university's application...
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Long-term forecast: grey will go, leaving clear sky between elite and rest
Research will be focused in just 25 universities by 2025 as the UK sector becomes increasingly stratified, higher education experts have predicted.
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Cycle of domination of top roles by men must be broken
More women attend university now, but there are still too few in senior posts. It's time to tackle the barriers, says Louise Morley
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This corrosion spreads
Terran Lane struck a chord with me, irrespective of the obvious differences between the US and UK higher education systems ("I'd have to be mad to leave here, they said - and they were right",...
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A different world
Financial models that have stood firm for decades are failing, technological revolution is opening new doors and a growing middle class is creating unprecedented demand. At a time of extraordinary...
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Declining investment could trigger irreversible loss of British prestige
Russell Group chair issues warning over threat to ¡®hard-won eminence¡¯. John Morgan reports
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An Ecology of Happiness
We face a great contemporary paradox. Many domestic economies are stagnating and in desperate need of growth. At the same time, the apparently free natural resources of the planet are being used up....
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi
A documentary about a Japanese Michelin-starred perfectionist has tasty titbits but not enough meat for Barak Kushner¡¯s taste
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Grant winners
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE REPLACEMENT, REFINEMENT AND REDUCTION OF ANIMALS IN RESEARCH - NC3RsProject Grants? Award winner: Andrew Cossins? Institution: University of Liverpool? Value ?440,093The...
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Tales of student visa bureaucracy
The visa process can trap students in a costly Kafkaesque limbo. To improve life for foreign scholars, the sector should halt its failed lobbying over policy and focus on publicising the misery...
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Latest winners for investment fund announced
Seven university, business and charity partnerships have been announced as winners of the second round of the Research Partnership Investment Fund.
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THE World University Rankings 2012-13
Losses for UK and US as Eastern excellence drives start to bear fruit. Elizabeth Gibney reports
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News in brief
United StatesTake a hike? Have 21The head of a US higher education system has had to backtrack after he "mistakenly" ordered 21 salary increases for system executives without the board's approval....
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News in brief
United StatesIn two minds on training of mindsA national survey has found that Americans are split over the value of a degree. Six out of 10 respondents consider the costs associated with attending...