Dismay over dropout rate at private colleges taking SLC cash
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signals that it may remove sub-degree qualifications from the higher education budget
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Working abroad: is the grass greener?
Six academics share their experiences of university life overseas
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Improvement by degree or natural talent?
David Matthews finds government is excluding signalling in its calculations on a degree’s worth
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Students unrealistic about skill level of jobs
Expectations of fast track to graduate-level job are overoptimistic, suggests report
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Oxbridge uplift disguises a drop in the size of average UK endowment
Institutions still ‘lag well behind’ US counterparts, which are piling on funds
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A conscious uncoupling: the AS level as a standalone qualification
Mary Curnock Cook on what reform in England could mean for admissions
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HELP could force graduates to clear debt faster
University Alliance says repayment period of 15 years under HELP UK system could plug black hole in funding system
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26 June 2014
Wish you were here? - The ups and downs of taking a post abroad
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World in brief - 26 June 2014
Source: AlamyUnited StatesDiscount tuition for Starbucks employeesStarbucks is partnering with Arizona State University to offer its employees heavily discounted undergraduate degrees. The Starbucks...
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Grant winners - 26 June 2014
Action Medical ResearchAward winner: David W. CarmichaelInstitution: University College LondonValue: £164,035Epilepsy in children – improving scanning before surgeryAward winner: Elizabeth...
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Anthony Kelly, 1929-2014
The second vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey, who steered his institution through the upheavals of the 1980s, has died
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Q&A with Sir Brian Hoskins
We speak to professor of meteorology at the University of Reading and chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London
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THE Scholarly Web - 26 June 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World, by Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Alison Stokes on a 19th-century volcanic eruption that caused a global climate disaster
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Malaysia changes targets for postgraduates
Government aims to train 60,000 students at postgraduate level over next nine years