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United StatesBachelor's boys and girlsRecord numbers of young adults in the US are completing high school and attending and finishing university, according to research. Analysis of newly available...
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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH RESEARCHHealth Technology Assessment Programme• Award winner: Jason Waugh• Institution: Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust• Value: £554,488How accurate...
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Not enough information: colleges turn on Unistats' 'misleading' data
Student information website provokes dismay in further education sector. David Matthews reports
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The payoff of 'buy' or 'sell' will be harmony or discord
Composer and banker team up for opera created by stock market patterns. Matthew Reisz reports
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Money and old tropes
The academy is paying too much, not too little, heed to calls for adaptability to the market, says Hannah Forsyth
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The new motto for the marketplace: all for one and none for all
Mission groups are bearing the brunt of institutions' growing need for a strong individual identity, find Julian Beer and Wendy Purcell
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Bruising but beneficial
The coalition's controversial higher education reforms are delivering a more progressive and sustainable system, argues Vince Cable
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Clear as mud but not so graceful
Times Higher Education to anoint worst example of corporate gobbledegook in sector. Chris Parr writes
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Hefce's strange situation: reform without statute
UK higher education is in a "strange situation" as the legislation required to implement wide-ranging government reforms is not in place, England's funding chief has said.
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Modern languages lost for words over low intake
Two UK language departments may be forced to close their degree programmes because they recruited too few students for 2012-13, a lecturers' association has claimed.
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Injurious visa rules irk Miliband
Ex-foreign secretary decries border policy debarring lucrative overseas students. Chris Parr reports
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This year London, later the world
NCH looks to go from 60-student intake to degree powers, campus abroad. David Matthews reports
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News in brief
A-level reformsOnce a year is enough, says sectorStudents in England will no longer be able to sit A-level exams in January, Ofqual has said. From September 2013, students starting their courses will...
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'I'm all for women' - vice-chancellor
Our vice-chancellor has given a nod of approval to research findings that demonstrate the implicit gender bias in university hiring practices.He told our reporter Keith Ponting (30) that he had...
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Skyscraper's the limit for furious NYU academics
University plans to expand in Greenwich Village have sparked a grass-roots revolt, finds Ian Wylie