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Soros gives $250m to Budapest institution Financier George Soros has donated $250 million (£175 million) to the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, which he founded ten years ago to...
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Three AUT leadership contenders emerge Three internal contenders have emerged for the vacant general secretary’s job at the Association of University Teachers. They are: Brian Everett, regional...
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Goodwill under grey skies
It's a long way from the Gulf to rainy Leeds but for Omanis at summer school there, the journey proved worthwhile. Rain in Leeds is not an event most visitors would write home about, except when you...
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Staff alarmed about birth of NHS monster
University staff are alarmed by claims that the University of the NHS will be the largest university in the world, with more than 1 million students, a network of campuses and e-learning facilities....
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Latest international news
Annan is peace prize winner Kofi Annan, secretary general of the UN, is winner of this year's Nobel peace prize. Professor refuses to quit over Pentagon 'joke' A University of New Mexico professor...
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NEWS Scottish higher education: the "jewel in the crown" under review FEATURES Jon Turney talks to James D. Watson about life after DNA BOOKS Girls, Genes and Gamow: why can't Jim get a date? Ian...
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Latest UK news
Energy research review launched David King, the government’s chief scientific adviser, has launched a review of energy research and development. An open meeting will be held on Monday October 29 at...
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From today's UK papers
Today's top story The Trinidad-born British author V. S. (sir Vidia) Naipaul yesterday achieved the wildest dream of his iron-willed, sometimes viper-tongued and initially impoverished lifetime by...
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Tories: it's full steam ahead
Conservatives must look forward not back to regain voter support, according to shadow higher education minister Alistair Burt, writes Alan Thomson. Speaking at the Conservative Party conference in...
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Revamped college league is under fire
College heads have warned that the performance of their institutions will be unfairly downgraded in league tables to be published by the government next week. The Association of Colleges says...
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Debt-free study on DFES's mind
"Debt-free" higher education is emerging as a government ambition as support grows for a return to maintenance grants and the scrapping of tuition fees. Ministers and officials are considering moves...
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Great news for Hodge as enrolments soar
More students than ever have enrolled at British universities this autumn, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, writes Alison Goddard. Some 18,000 more students have taken...
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News in brief
Brunel bids to boost research profile Brunel University is hiring 60 lecturers to help boost its research profile. The move is part of a ten-year plan that includes the immediate...
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Labor tries to knock Afghans off agenda
Australia's Labor party is striving to shift the political focus from the Afghan refugee issue to higher education and other public services in the run-up to the November 10 general election. Party...
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SA minister and Unisa clash over v-c
A bitter clash has erupted between South Africa's biggest distance university and the education minister - over the appointment of a new vice-chancellor ahead of a merger with two other institutions...