Funding gap may see fees treble
Universities may be forced to double or treble tuition fees to help plug a £7 billion hole in higher education funding, according to a new report. Annual fees of more than £3,000 on some courses is...
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Don's Diary: Howard Wright
Tuesday Landing at Bahir Dar in North Ethiopia is unsettling. The conflict in Eritrea is close by and the airfield is a base for government Mig fighter planes. The window blinds are shut for take-off...
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Glittering prizes
Sir Alec Broers , vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, has received the Royal Academy of Engineering 's highest award, the Prince Philip Medal , in recognition of his exceptional...
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Straw poll on fees
William Straw, son of home secretary Jack, has not had a great relationship with the press since being duped into supplying cannabis to an undercover reporter. Now he has attacked it for failing to...
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A taste of common life
The Queen had a taste of real life in the common room when she paused for a coffee with graduate theology students on a visit to open Cambridge University's new divinity faculty. All the students had...
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Who can rule Britannia?
The German government would do a better job of governing the United Kingdom than the Conservatives, according to managing directors and marketing managers questioned in a London School of Economics...
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Former feds back CIA
The Further Education Development Agency was relaunched this week and renamed the Learning and Skills Development Agency. The acronym Lasda has not gone down well with employees who would not be seen...
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In the News: Roderick Floud
Roderick Floud is relishing the challenge of being the first vice-chancellor from a post-1992 university to take the helm of the United Kingdom's foremost higher education employers' body. His main...
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On the move
Dame Veronica Sutherland , deputy secretary general of the Commonwealth Secretariat, has been elected president of Lucy Cavendish College , Cambridge, from next October. She succeeds Baroness Perry...
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World Watch
Vienna An armed man walked into the vice-chancellor's office at Vienna University and shot dead his girlfriend, who worked there as a secretary, and then committed suicide. The man, an unemployed...
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World View: Russia's quest for approval
In a bid to rebuild its self-confidence, Russian academia is looking for recognition from the international community. It was towards the end of a generously resourced dinner and after many impromptu...
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Eyewitness
A saga that began with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves of Khirbet Qumran, near the Dead Sea, in 1947 has ended more than 50 years later before Israel's Supreme Court. Elisha Qimron...
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Tax on studies hits enrolment
Australian universities appear to have experienced a dramatic fall in applications from prospective students, despite more young people becoming eligible to enter higher education. Although no...
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India invites investment from its ex-pats
India's cash-strapped higher education sector is opening up to foreign investment, but opportunities to invest will initially be restricted to Indian nationals domiciled overseas. A cabinet committee...
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From a NY park bench to Harvard
Harvard's most celebrated British student, Laura Spence, was not the only one to find the Ivy League school an unfamiliar setting when she arrived in September. Across the street from Elizabeth...