MP questions worth of degree
Frank Field points to comparison with pay for those working after apprenticeships
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Immigration policy to come under Lords microscope
Peers to look at whether damage is being done to universities
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Live stream: US president Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama
Live stream has now endedAt 4:20pm (GMT) on 16 January 2014, US president Barack Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama addressed a White House summit on higher education.The event was set up to...
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Overseas student total falls ‘for first time’ as Indian numbers collapse
The number of non-EU students at UK universities fell by 1 per cent last year, the first such decline ever recorded.
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THE podcast: 16 January 2014 issue review
Download the podcastThe subjects that students have favoured (and forsaken) in the past 15 years, dishonesty in university prospectuses, and the problem of analysing big data feature in this week’s...
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Germany pledges to increase foreign students by 25 per cent
Coalition government promises to internationalise higher education
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Freewomen and Supermen: Edwardian Radicals and Literary Modernism, by Anne Fernihough
Sandeep Parmar is tantalised by the notion of the political in Modernism
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Pitch rises while applications fall
Student marketing spend trebled as Salford shut low-demand courses
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Life Beyond Earth: The Search for Habitable Worlds in the Universe, by Athena Coustenis and Thérèse Encrenaz
The astrobiology is up to date but the subbing needs work, says Lewis Dartnell
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Rosy prospectuses ‘misleading’ students
Marketing material does not always reveal true picture, research finds
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Labour urged to ditch maintenance grants, lower fees and ‘think local’
Party’s former universities secretary proposes radical policy change for general election manifesto
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Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory, by Robert J. Richards
Nazi ideology may not have adopted evolutionary theory wholesale, but it certainly used its ideas, says Yvonne Sherratt
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Defamation Act 2013: what scientists need to know
Scientists can speak more freely without fear of being sued, explains SÃle Lane
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Are scholars or executives best suited to lead universities?
Headhunters Odgers Berndtson ask if academics have the business skills necessary to run a university
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Romanians and Bulgarians ‘pulled’ off courses after funding freeze
Student Loans Company payments suspended until proof given to support residence claim