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Brazil's brightest head to US after failing UK language test
British border bureaucracy thwarts Science Without Borders scheme. Elizabeth Gibney writes
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QAA logo available to universities as quality mark
The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has launched a quality mark to assure students about standards in higher education.
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London 2012 legacy to include medical research centre
The anti-doping facilities serving the London 2012 Games will become a “groundbreaking” research centre into personalised medicine after the Olympics have ended, it has been announced.
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‘Considerable’ support for plan to scrap tariff points
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service’s tariff points scheme is a step closer to being scrapped after a consultation showed there was “considerable” support for the move.
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Physicists have eye on new £1.9m prize
A Russian billionaire and former physicist has awarded nine scientists prizes of $3 million (£1.9 million) each for their work in fundamental physics.
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Inside Higher Ed: Results are in: Harkin releases critical report on for-profits
By Paul Fain for Inside Higher Ed
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Independent HE commission makes call for evidence
The Institute for Public Policy Research has put out a call for evidence for its Commission on the Future of Higher Education in England.
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Honours for those who make learning come alive
Outstanding lecturers and learning-support staff within higher education have been recognised by the sector.
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Keep research away from prying FoIs, say MPs
A cross-party group of MPs has recommended a change in the law to prevent unpublished research data being released under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Degree powers for Regent's College welcomed by Willetts
Regent's College has become the latest private institution to be granted degree-awarding powers, and it now aims to become only the second private university in the UK.
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The Colours of Our Memories
We all view our lives through tinted spectacles that shape our recollections, finds Helen Fulton
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Completing College: Rethinking Institutional Action
Barbara Stephens finds few clear pointers for the UK in the sobering tale of American dropout rates
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The Human Right to Health
According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the right to health is a human right. But what this entails, and in what sense health can be a right, are still matters of controversy. In his...
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Introduction to Antiphilosophy
At one point in Emir Kusturica's 1995 film Underground, the viewer comes across a vast network of tunnels mysteriously interconnecting the whole of Europe. While above ground the Cold War is getting...