Edinburgh’s 'rest-of-UK' fees head north to £36,000
The University of Edinburgh has announced it will charge undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to £36,000 for a degree.
The University of Edinburgh has announced it will charge undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to £36,000 for a degree.

By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed

The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings is today unveiled by Times Higher Education, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday 6 October 2011.
Attempts by universities to seek out and respond to student feedback are often inadequate or poorly executed, a new study suggests.

Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country’s new “intellectual guardians”, the head of Britain’s teacher training body has said.
King’s College London has re-opened its chemistry department eight years after concluding that it was unsustainable.
Graduates who left university in 2007 are more likely to be unemployed than those who graduated earlier in the decade, new figures reveal.
Changes to the university funding regime will bring an “abrupt halt” to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.

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