Harvard breaks through the $20bn barrier
Harvard University announced last week that its endowment had passed the $20 billion mark, rising to $22.6 billion (£12.6 billion) for the year to the end of June. This is 25 times larger than that...
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RAF trade
A Harrier jump-jet fighter has 'landed' at Coventry University as part of a £400,000 investment in an aerospace laboratory - the only one of its kind in a UK university. The laboratory has been...
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Hard choices lie ahead, panel warns Cambridge
Cambridge University needs to face up to tough decisions about the range of academic work and the future of courses if it is to retain its world-class reputation and address a £71 million funding...
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Spin-off division to be spun off
The Cambridge department that spins off researchers' ideas for commercial exploitation is itself set to be spun off as part of an overhaul of the help available to academics applying for grants or...
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London looks for strength in unity
42 institutions are pooling their considerable resources. Chris Johnston reports London's universities are so busy competing with one another that they do not give a second thought to the possibility...
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Collaboration in the capital
42 institutions are pooling their considerable resources. Chris Johnston reports * WestFocus is a consortium set up to provide an innovation network to support high-tech and knowledge-based...
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City's colleges forge beneficial links with their higher neighbours
42 institutions are pooling their considerable resources. Chris Johnston reports Higher education in London may be big but further education is bigger, boasting more colleges and far more students....
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Debts may rise in Scots rejig
Tens of thousands of students at Scottish universities from elsewhere in the UK could struggle financially because their loan payments are out of kilter with new academic semesters being introduced...
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Welsh row as assembly denies top-ups U-turn
Students who start degrees at Welsh institutions in 2006 may have to pay top-up fees from 2007, university heads fear, Tony Tysome writes. Vice-chancellors claim that the Welsh Assembly has backed...
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Colleges complain of £1.3bn shortfall
College heads say further education is the significant loser in this autumn's spending round, thanks to funding promises made to higher education and schools, writes Tony Tysome. They claim that £1.5...
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Linguists lost in translation find new life in poetry
Portsmouth University has brought a twist to studying the languages of Dante and Schiller, Cervantes and Proust. Modern language students are being encouraged to get in touch with their creative side...
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Private US university hit by £8m fine
The breakneck growth of private for-profit universities in the US has suffered a setback after allegations that the nation's largest commercial higher education corporation recruited unqualified...
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Romania plans to strike over pay
Academics at universities in Romania are threatening to strike over pay from the beginning of the new academic year if the Government fails to agree to a 100 per cent pay increase effective...
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UN condemns 'illegal' election of rector at Kosovo-Mitrovica
The Serbian-taught University of Kosovo-Mitrovica has lost accreditation from the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo on the grounds that the election of its rector was illegal....
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Election may halt top-ups
Thousands of prospective university students in Australia will not know until late next month what course fees they will have to pay in January. The students have to complete their applications for...