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Obama calls for state budgets to prioritise higher education
Barack Obama has called on state departments to prioritise higher education in their budgets – but has warned universities that spiralling tuition will be met with a cut in taxpayer funding.
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Hunt over-ruled on ballot as new strike action looms
The University and College Union is moving towards another strike in newer universities over lecturers’ pensions.
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New service to help universities internationalise
The government has launched a new cross-department venture to encourage universities to expand internationally.
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Sussex to close community engagement programmes
The University of Sussex has been urged to rethink a decision to close most of its lifelong learning department.
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BBSRC unveils new doctoral training centres
Fourteen doctoral training partnerships for the biosciences have been unveiled.
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HE bill ‘to be shelved indefinitely’
David Cameron is reported to have made a dramatic intervention in the university reforms, shelving the higher education bill that was due this spring.
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Work-to-rule action may be dropped by UCU
The University and College Union may suspend its work-to-rule industrial action on pension cuts in pre-1992 universities, after talks with employers.
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Inside Higher Ed: Eastern promises
By Kaustuv Basu, for Inside Higher Ed
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Business schools braced for decline in international applications
Business schools are facing a 10-15 per cent drop in applications for MBA programmes, new figures suggest.
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Social scientists to work with retailers to improve the British high street
A team of academics is to help retailers make better use of social science research.
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British Academy secures new investment for small grants scheme
The British Academy and Leverhulme Trust have announced a major new investment in humanities and social sciences through the academy’s small research grants scheme.
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Cultures and crises discussed by academics and arts leaders
Nations are “always in crisis”, a former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts has argued, as he praised the arm’s-length system of public funding embodied by the Arts Council, which meant...
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Grant letter delayed as government ‘considers lowering AAB threshold’
Delays to the annual grant letter may be down to government plans to announce an easing of the AAB rules that are to introduce competition for students between institutions.
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Number of academic staff falls 1 per cent in last two years
The number of people working within the higher education sector in the UK has dropped by 2 per cent over the last two academic years.