Free them from the net
Edward Acton's suggestion that international students be removed from net migration figures should be adopted if the UK is to build on one of its strongest exports ("Why so prickly?", 19 April)....
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Fuzzy logic
The article "Sector shuts out external consultants in era of austerity" (5 April) cites Birmingham City University as having spent nothing on external consultants in the past three years. Featuring...
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Colin Williams, 1948-2012
Colin Williams was born in Newport in 1948 and, after undergoing several operations for an orthopaedic condition as a child, went on to pursue a brief career in the music industry as a gig promoter,...
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Campus round-up
Durham UniversityUnrivalled shelf lifeEurope's oldest surviving book is to go on display in Durham after Ā£9 million was raised to buy it for the nation. The St Cuthbert Gospel, a manuscript copy of...
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26 April 2012
Wave of resistance - Arab students strive to reap the fruits of Spring
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Revolutionary road
As the fallout from the Arab Spring continues, David Matthews reports from Cairo on the birth - and troubled infancy - of the student union movement in Egypt
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Research intelligence - Value according to the metrics system
Scholars criticise methods to judge āat-riskā peers in Queen Mary restructuring. Paul Jump reports
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NUS re-elects Burns and calls for Willetts to resign
Liam Burns has been re-elected as president of the National Union of Students
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V-c 'alcohol ban' comments could prompt attacks on Muslim students, London Met Islamic groups claim
Two Islamic societies at London Metropolitan University have launched a scathing attack on āundemocratic, ill devised and misleading remarksā by the vice-chancellor, who proposed banning alcohol from...
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Strict government targets for NI universities
The Northern Ireland government has issued the regionās two universities with a checklist of targets as part of its higher education strategy.
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London Met UCU returns āno confidenceā vote on v-c
The University and College Union has called on the governors of London Metropolitan University to āintervene and re-directā the institution after a survey returned a 91 per cent vote of no confidence...
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V-cs urged to fork out tax savings for fair access
The National Union of Students has called on university heads to donate their tax savings to its new programme for student-led outreach.
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Campus Review: University of Queensland defends coal seam gas centre
The head of a new Australian research centre says the institution is not prepared to stand idly by as a new energy source is developed. Susan Woodward reports
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Unions reject 0.8 per cent pay offer
Universities have pitched their latest pay offer for next year well short of the 7 per cent claim from the unions, tabling a 0.8 per cent offer that was quickly rejected.