Cable criticises any gloating over immigration figures
Vince Cable has said any sense of “triumph” over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is “absurd”, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement
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Sally Hunt: Time to get our act together
Call to put differences aside, ahead of UCU Congress in Brighton
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IPPR calls for £5k cut-price degrees
Stay-at-home students who attend a local university should be eligible for cut-price tuition fees of £5,000 a year, according to an influential commission of higher education experts
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Female converts to Islam considered in new study
A major new academic study exploring the attitudes of women who have converted to Islam in Britain looks at issues ranging from dress codes to divorce, marriage to media stereotypes and spirituality...
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Greenwich launches investigation in wake of Woolwich murder
The University of Greenwich has launched an investigation into whether there has been extremism on its campuses after confirming that one of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier studied at...
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Cambridge students continue AS-level fight
Students at the University of Cambridge have written to an education minister attacking the government’s response to a petition against the plan to scrap AS levels.
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London borough offers students extra funding
Teenagers in one of London’s most deprived boroughs are to receive grants from their local authority to help them attend university.
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Small firms nervous about the Hear, warns report
Some employers are nervous about incorporating the Higher Education Achievement Report into their graduate recruitment process, a report has found.
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Drop in students fuels further net migration fall
Net migration to the UK has fallen again mainly thanks to a 23 per cent drop in the number of students coming to the country to study.
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Alternatives to 9k cap ‘would not cost more’, says report
Lowering tuition fees to £6,000 – a policy put forward by Labour - could cost the Treasury the same as the current £9,000 set-up, a study has claimed.
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THE podcast: 23 May 2013 issue review
Download the podcastBrian Sewell’s cover feature on the edifying effect of studying art history, the implications of moving medical research and education budgets across Whitehall, and the value of...
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Brian Sewell: Every picture tells a history
Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian Sewell
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Unbridled success: Germany’s fee foes claim victory
Less than 10 years since their introduction, tuition fees will soon disappear from the country. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
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Campus round-up - 23 May 2013
Creature comfortsAn animal-obsessed artist will step into character as “Mrs Panda Head” when she gives a live performance at a university show for aspiring artists. Mary Beth Quigley has created a...
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News in brief - 23 May 2013
AustraliaMedia students try to keep it realAn Australian university launched an investigation after it emerged that students had been assigned to plant fake stories in a rival institution’s student...