Czechs seek cash to compete
Czech rectors want long-promised increased funds to be paid to universities before the country joins the European Union next January, as fears grow that many students will leave for better-funded...
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Private practice
Europe's second private medical university opened its doors in the Alpine city of Salzburg this week to a group of 42 students. Those starting their first term at the Private Medical University...
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Women grab one in four v-c jobs
The gender mix at the top of Australia's universities is shifting dramatically - a record 11 of the 39 members of the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee are women. Six years ago, only two women...
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Degree market to open up
Private businesses will be able to award their own degrees in direct competition with the traditional higher education sector under government plans published this week. Launching a consultation on...
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London strike to 'hurt' freshers
The Association of University Teachers will take its members out on strike during student registration for the first time ever next week, writes Phil Baty. In the first step of its agreed policy to "...
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Today's news
Portillo questions Tory line on top-up fees Michael Portillo caused speculation yesterday that he will oppose Iain Duncan Smith's policy of abolishing top-up fees as he spoke warmly about...
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Path to Bologna 'lacks urgency'
European university leaders want education ministers to inject fresh urgency into the Bologna process of convergence between higher education systems across 36 countries. This week the scheme's...
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Free to find our own way on access and inclusion
Jane Davidson outlines how Wales will benefit from designing its own tuition-fee and student-support system The numbers of students going into higher education in Wales are already at an all-time...
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Alison Wolf
Unions are rolling out the expected positions, but must the hypocrisy surrounding top-up fees be similarly predictable? As a teenager, I chose to study social science because I wanted to understand...
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Minister's gangster wrap?
Alan Johnson, the new higher education minister, last week gave a unique insight into government decision-making. Asked how he was going to help the poorest students facing annual tuition fees of up...
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Sheer consistency
Earlier the minister appeared to blow the cover of Labour MP Barry Sheerman, chair of the Commons education select committee. Marking the 40th anniversary of the Robbins report, which advocated the...
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Break a record ... not a leg
Good luck to Dundee University's music society, which aims to break a world record by casting, rehearsing and staging a musical in 23 hours and 30 minutes. At 8pm on September 26, the society will...
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Sof(a)isticated invention
Couch potatoes could soon turn on their televisions and order a takeaway simply by sitting down on a "smart" sofa. Computer scientists at Trinity College Dublin have devised intelligent furniture...
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Don's diary: show-stoppers and stoppers on show
June 3 2003 Returning from a conference in the US, I discover that the departmental computer refuses to recognise me. A computer wizard assures me that it is easy to fix, but he rapidly dissolves...
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Why I ... believe independent study is under threat
In 2001, I published a textbook that aimed to encourage first-year English students to think through their own ideas of what English is, has been or could be. Since then, I have led three related...