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Financial Times Top universities are urging students to take the new AS-level exams to show that they are not limited to the traditional model of three A-levels in the arts, sciences or languages....
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Haifa appoints German non-Jew chairman A German non-Jew has been appointed Haifa University's chairman of governors despite opposition from some members of the senate. Manfred Lanstein is president...
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Blair defends tuition fees Tony Blair today defended his government’s decision to introduce tuition fees and abolish means-tested maintenance grants. Speaking on Radio 4’s Election Call he said that...
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Financial Times The new Learning and Skills Councils will be dominated by educationalists and other "vested interests" unless business is given more influence, business leaders have told the...
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Lib Dems push to scrap fees in Wales Welsh Liberal Democrats hope to repeat the party’s success in scrapping upfront tuition fees in Scotland by lobbying the next government to abolish them in Wales...
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Financial Times Students preparing for exams or celebrating their end are uninterested in voting. Research at Cranfield University, the University of the West of England and the Defence Evaluation...
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Man defamed by university wins $1m A former student who claimed that Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington State, had spoiled his hope of a teaching career by telling state officials...
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Enrolment ban lifted by Turkish court A Turkish court has lifted a ban on enrolments at the private Fatih University in Istanbul. It had been imposed by the higher...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian Today's teenagers are working a gruelling 57-hour week as they juggle school with paid jobs, according to research carried out for BBC AS Guru, a new website for AS-level students. www....
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Lancaster institute to close Lancaster University’s senate has voted to discontinue the Institute for English Language Education. A spokeswoman said some of the institute’s work would be transferred...
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Italy to bridge Arab divide
Philosophy lecturer Armando Plebe dreamed of a higher education bridge across the Mediterranean to promote understanding, cultural enrichment and trade between Europe and the Arab world. The dream...
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Well-positioned Malta enjoys its status as first global learning hub
An internet-based university is to start operating courses from Malta that are aimed at spreading expertise on information technology communications, especially to developing countries. Online...
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Medicine facing a crisis
Universities are facing a medical staff crisis that could jeopardise the expansion in medical schools announced as part of government plans to save the National Health Service. "Vice-chancellors have...
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Kay Henderson, who is in her final year of fashion design at Nottingham Trent University, won the Royal Society of Arts fashion design award and the John Lewis Travel award.
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Union campaigns to scrap QAA
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to campaign for the abolition of the Quality Assurance Agency after delegates to its annual conference launched a series of attacks on the inspection regime. Closely...