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Chaminda Jayanetti and Patrick Ward uncover a bid to fill places by dropping entry requirements. Elite universities were this week reducing their advertised entry requirements to as low as three...
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Cash unclaimed as engineering applications plummet
Engineering scholarships worth thousands of pounds have been left on the shelf because not enough school leavers want to study a degree in the troubled discipline, The Times Higher can reveal. The UK...
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Excited by the wonders of our material world
What do money markets, molecules and magma have in common? A cohort of talented, energetic researchers in physical sciences, as Anthea Lipsett reports. The widely held view of academics in the...
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Women fail to tap patents vein
The lack of an old girls' network hinders chances of success, says Jon Marcus Researchers at Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Berkeley have found that women in the sciences are...
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Opposition steps in with pledge as fees hit A$237K
Australia's opposition Labor Party says it will bar universities from charging home students full tuition fees if it wins next year's federal election. The pledge coincides with the disclosure that...
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Jordan reins in private sector
Jordan's Higher Education Ministry has been inundated with bids to set up private universities. Of 24 applications received last year, four were given permission to proceed - three of them graduate...
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Scholars claim Bill will invert Japan's postwar gains
Legal scholars are at the forefront of a campaign to block the Japanese Government's proposed Bill on education, arguing that it breaches the constitution. As the coalition Government gears up for...
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Plan to target poorer pupils
But not everyone thinks it's fair, reports Genevieve Hesse. In an initiative started in 2001, talented young people from deprived Parisian suburbs have enrolled on a special programme at the elite...
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Iceland under fire over loan restriction
The Icelandic Government is facing a legal challenge to its restrictive student loans regulations. The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) Surveillance Authority considers that the rules break European...
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Come on in, but only if you have lots of money
The UK is unlikely to ever resurrect its past spirit of exporting education for free, laments John Sutherland. One of the few consolations for having served a full, 40-year academic career (four life...
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Gary Day
I had to look twice before I could believe my eyes. Yes, that was a skull dangling on the end of my garden fork. It was a long time ago, and I was working in a cemetery in Newbury. It was a bit of a...
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Muslims and the war on ignorance
Demanding a better education "Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today," said Malcolm X. In a climate of fear, mistrust, misinformation,...
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Postage sent packing
It seems that cost cutting at the research councils knows no bounds. This year's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council annual report was sent to academics without the postage paid -...
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New name skims bottom line
Pity Bedfordshire University. Just weeks after ditching the Luton University name, a moniker often unfairly deemed synonymous with bums-on-seats dumbing down, cynical readers have pointed out that...
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Gone clubbing
Surely vice-chancellors are far too busy lunching with corporate and political big cheeses for a weekly current affairs chat with students? Not Terence Kealey, Buckingham University's vice-chancellor...