Student loans change to add £12 billion to UK deficit
Estimated portion of loans that will never be repaid to be classed as government spending, rather than lending
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English review mulls barring students with low grades from loans
Options said to have been modelled by Augar review could mean students with Ds or Es at A level are in effect blocked from entering university
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Secrecy claims as first ‘Western civilisation’ degree announced
Staff, council and senate at Wollongong ‘did not know talks were under way’
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More cuts to Australian research in ‘brutal’ mini-budget
PhD scholarships in the sights as cutbacks more than double analysts’ expectations
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Chinese support for Plan S ‘major blow’ to opponents
Critics of open-access initiative had warned of limits on collaborations and publishing choice if major regions stayed out
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Europe launches continent-wide recruitment fair for economists
Why other academic disciplines have not also introduced such markets is a ‘very good question’, organisers say
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Qualification recognition is crucial to refugee integration
Credential verification would allow refugees to access education and the labour market, say Terje Mørland and Stig Arne Skjerven
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Students from single-sex schools ‘anxious’ in mixed universities
Unfamiliarity with opposite sex may harm academic results when mixed-gender cooperation required, says study
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Business schools ‘ignore cooperatives’
Graduate programmes tipped to lure disillusioned millennials
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New funding aims to reboot internationalisation in Brazil
Capes-PrInt programme could help Brazil become more active in internationalisation, but worries emerge about scheme’s concentration and its future under new right-wing president
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How to balance the civic cost of graduate retention
Universities can help bridge the gap between graduates who stay put and their local communities through targeted outreach programmes for students and staff, says Christopher Birchall
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Female-authored research ‘has more readers’
Work published by women is more widely read by undergraduate and master’s students and by junior researchers than articles written by men
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US researchers see EU privacy rules as brake on collaboration
New European rule on protecting data from human research subjects being found so complicated as to slow medical science
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Study debunks link between student ‘grit’ and retention
Study raises doubts over value of ‘character education’ in universities
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Practising my art makes me a more grounded vice-chancellor
Conceptual artist Bashir Makhoul reflects on the benefits of combining art and higher education leadership