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Campus round-up
Sheffield/London College of FashionReactionary fashionClothes that help to clean the air could be produced as a result of a collaboration between a university and a fashion college. Anthony Ryan, pro...
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Odds and quads
This walking stick once belonged to Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the 20th century. The handkerchief was used to cover his face after his...
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Mão amiga: UK to host 1,000s of Brazilian students
Brazil is set to strike up closer links with the UK through student scholarships and research partnerships.
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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30 June 2011
A half-cocked plan - The government’s White Paper on the future of higher education
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Scottish universities to be allowed to charge £9k for students from rest of UK
Scottish universities will be allowed to set tuition fees at £9,000 a year for students from the rest of the UK, bringing them into line with their English counterparts.
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White Paper: doubt cast on proposals for high-achieving students
University admissions experts have expressed doubts about plans in today’s higher education White Paper to remove student number controls for high-achieving students.
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White Paper: reactions round-up
Politicians, vice-chancellors and lobby groups have all given their initial responses to the publication of today’s White Paper on higher education. Here are a selection:
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White Paper: one in four undergraduate places will be up for grabs
A quarter of all student places are to be open to full competition in 2012-13, in a government bid to force higher education institutions to vie for the brightest and best applicants at one end of...
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White Paper: for-profits to benefit from level playing-field
For-profit providers are to be given full access to the student loans system on condition that they agree to follow the same rules on standards, quality and fair access as publicly funded...
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Graduate salaries to rise as competition hots up
The average graduate starting salary is expected to increase for the first time in two years, a report has predicted – but graduates face more competition for jobs.The summer edition of the...
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Higher purpose: new universities still key to social progress as elite fall short, says retiring v-c
The purpose of higher education needs to be more than preparing students for jobs if we are to avoid a future where “people know their place and stay there,” according to an outgoing vice-chancellor....
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Usefulness of rankings outweighs concerns
World university rankings may be 'simplistic' but they offer comparative information that is otherwise unavailable, writes Phil Baty
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AHRC Big Society row deepens as 42 peer reviewers pull out and call for mass resignations
Senior academics have carried out their threat to resign from the Arts and Humanities Research Council's peer review college in a dispute over "Big Society" research – and are now calling on...