Fraud fears rocket as Chinese seek a place at any price
Western universities scramble to spot fraudulent applications from China’s hypercompetitive students
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Two-year degrees floated by Welsh government
The Welsh government has said it will look into “radical” innovations in higher education, including compressing undergraduate degrees into two years.
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Drugs ban is ‘scientific censorship’, says paper
The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.
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Oxford criticised in latest Green League
Universities have been lambasted for their “excruciatingly slow progress” on switching away from investments in “unethical” industries such as oil.
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Welsh universities ‘create billions’ for country’s economy
Universities in Wales have launched a report that argues that they create £3.6 billion for the country’s economy every year.
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Labour ‘open’ to rekindling targets for overseas student growth
Labour’s shadow business secretary is “open” to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been “taken hostage by the Home Office”...
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Inside Higher Ed: Scholars as ‘Foreign Agents’
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Student visitor route not being abused, says government
The Home Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement
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Extend part-time loans, IPPR report to urge
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
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George Osborne gives strong hint on protecting science
George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review
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THE podcast: 6 June 2013 issue review
Download the podcastThis week’s issue review was recorded in Red Lion Square, outside the Times Higher Education’s London offices. The concept of monitoring graduates’ earnings according to the...
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THE podcast: Global University Summit 2013
Source: Rex FeaturesDownload the podcastThe 2013 Global University Summit took place in central London between the 28 and the 30 May. In this special podcast, we have exclusive interviews with Boris...
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Think small: sector encouraged to reach out to SMEs
Former CBI head says interaction’s the key to productivity
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Russell Group shock: exclusive
Strictly between you and IIn what is being described as “a well-organised sting”, our reporter, Keith Ponting (30), posing as the deputy vice-chancellor of a provincial university, recently met with...
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Graduate earnings by institution: ‘dangerous’ data?
Minister and BIS take close interest in study with enormous policy implications