Teesside licence suspended as UKBA cracks whip
An English university has become the first UK higher education institution known to have had its licence for sponsoring international students suspended since rules were toughened.
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Group wants AHRC to clarify 'broken' position on funding
Subject heads to quiz Rylance over signs support for postgraduates will fall 27%. Paul Jump writes
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Pakistan has the antidote to brain drain: cash
Developing countries wanting to improve their universities should emulate the success of Pakistan in retaining top academics by paying them hefty salaries, according to the country's former science...
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Top university posts still elude female academics, study finds
Female academic leaders tend to get stuck in bureaucratic middle management roles rather than reaching top university posts, a study has found.
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Continental drift towards global alliances 'not in Africa's interests'
Build bridges closer to home to stop best minds going West, conference is told. Jack Grove reports
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Cuts threaten access reputation, Ulster staff claim
Academics fear that 'provision of teaching will be seriously diminished'. Matthew Reisz writes
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News in brief
University accessDux for cover? Elite should payA government scheme to reward top state school pupils with a visit to a Russell Group institution has been branded as "tokenism" by a university...
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Hunting parallels, but don's life is stranger than fiction
Jack Grove hears how a chance encounter propelled Arthur Gibson from Bradford's slums to Cambridge's high table
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United StatesState of the union: deniedA US governor has signed a bill prohibiting postgraduate students from forming unions at public universities in his state. Rick Snyder, the governor of Michigan...
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A sister act of positive discrimination to benefit all
Afghan politician strives to promote equal opportunity in divided land. Lianne Gutcher writes
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US study highlights need for wider leadership pool
Meet your average American college president: he's a 61-year-old married white man who has been in his current role for seven years and boasts a doctorate in education.This profile, from the American...
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An inclusive mission
As a scholar at Cambridge, Rowan Williams will continue pursuing a communal search for truth, says Benjamin Myers
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Hate has no place here
The sector must consider the law, confront its own prejudices, update its codes and banish the extremists from campus, says Ruth Deech
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Russell Group: Suits you, Sir
Our vice-chancellor has announced that he "perfectly understands" the reasoning that has led the universities of Exeter, Durham, York and Queen Mary, University of London to abandon their current...
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Dismantle the tower of 'edu-babble'
I am not at all surprised by the poor notices for the Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, which to me highlight the fact that the Higher Education Academy is probably unfit for purpose...