Blow to Blair's 50% pledge
Labour's key manifesto pledge to get 50 per cent of young people into higher education was undermined this week by official figures showing that the proportion has fallen over the past year. The...
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'loughborough is listening to industry about what research it needs'
Shirley Pearce, Loughborough University's new vice-chancellor, is keen to continue her work with industry Shirley Pearce, a clinical psychologist, has been appointed vice-chancellor of Loughborough...
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Activists issue merger war cry
A new super-union for post-16 education would replace the vice-chancellors as the voice of universities and colleges, the leader of the Association of University Teachers was due to claim this week....
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V-c taps staff for bursaries
As institutions battle it out to create the biggest bursary packages to lure students, Central Lancashire University has hit upon a novel idea: asking academics to help boost its funds for student...
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Cheats can resit for fee
verish debate over how universities deal with student cheats took a new twist this week when it emerged that Middlesex University allows students found guilty of plagiarism to retake failed courses...
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Stand by for a Mexican wave
University chiefs are set to be told to look westwards to recruit international students and forge research collaborations. Not to the US or Canada, but to Mexico, writes Anthea Lipsett. This will be...
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Upward mobility slows
Mobility between social classes has declined during the past 30 years - partly due to the expansion of higher education, which "disproportionately favoured those from higher income backgrounds", says...
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Europe funding call
A demand for higher levels of national government funding to support university teaching and research is at the centre of the Glasgow Declaration finalised this week by the European University...
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Graduate fears
Thirty-six per cent of this year's degree finalists expect to start a graduate job after university, according to the UK Graduate Careers Survey 2005 published this week. A growing number of students...
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Golden recognition
Aberdeen University and York St John College have won this year's Heist Gold Awards for higher education prospectuses. Heist, the specialist marketing services agency focusing on higher education,...
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Novel performance
Nick Hornby, author of Fever Pitch and About a Boy , will read from his new novel, A Long Way Down , as part of the University of East Anglia's literary festival next month. Mr Hornby appears on May...
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Health risk delusions
Both men and women think health risks are higher for their own sex than for the opposite sex, new research from Glasgow University reveals. But they also think their own sex is fitter. Sally...
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Correction
The European business school competition in Oxford at the start of April was organised by European Case Clearing House Ltd, a consortium of business schools, and not by Cranfield University as we...
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Residents join to fight student enclaves
Residents' groups in Edinburgh, Glasgow and St Andrews have formed the first inter-city coalition to fight the emergence of student "ghettos". Noise, anti-social behaviour and disregard for the...