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Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
Nottingham Trent UniversityFranklin my dear, we give a damnFertility specialist and television presenter Lord Winston has opened a multimillion-pound science facility named in honour of Rosalind...

First-rate vocational training is more essential than ever, says Sally Feldman
As the first undergraduates subject to England’s new higher fees regime acclimatise to campus life, Chris Parr talks to freshers across the capital about their reasons for going to university, how...
Lecturers at the University of East London are set to hold a one-day strike in a row over proposed changes to staff workloads.
Fewer than 45 per cent of continuing overseas students at London Metropolitan University have committed to stay with the troubled institution, given the choice of staying or transferring elsewhere.

The chairman of the Association of Business Schools has attacked the "misplaced tyranny" that science, technology, engineering and maths subjects have in policymaking circles and argued that...
Two American academics have won the Nobel Prize in economics for work that has led to more efficient ways of matching doctors with hospitals and organ donors with transplant patients.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
"Organisational effectiveness is not viewed as simply foregrounding cost savings, but instead a much more complex interplay of influences and drivers that facilitate opportunities for enhancing the...
Despite the riots that swept English cities in August 2011, the UK is seen as the safest place to study by international students, according to a new British Council report.
University lecturers will not join industrial action later this month over a 1 per cent pay offer after members voted against a strike.
Students should not notice any difference at Swansea Metropolitan University despite it officially merging with another institution, the university's outgoing vice-chancellor has said.
The Queen will award up to six Regius professorships to UK universities to mark the Diamond Jubilee, the Cabinet Office announced today.

Howard Davies on an industrial strategy that could help the Third World catch up with the West