Colleges in the dark over Wales validation changes
Widespread uncertainty among partner colleges after abrupt policy shift. David Matthews reports
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Ucas opens debate on a move to PQA
Consultation on 'unfair' system could result in students sitting A levels early. Jack Grove reports
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Fast-track degree will save a Lady Godiva or two
Degree courses lasting just over 18 months and costing £4,800 a year are to be offered by Coventry University.
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Edification, edification, edification...
Much has been made of the supposedly supine response of vice-chancellors to the wholesale reform of higher education by the coalition government.
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Industry urged to back UK research
The business world's "counter-intuitive" failure to capitalise on the UK's ever-increasing research excellence needs to be addressed by the government, the author of a report into UK research has...
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Cuts threaten feeder route to part-time study
Cutting teaching subsidies could "kill off" evening-class courses, which are a key route into part-time degrees, a conference has heard.
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This REF is a deadly serious undertaking
Frustration with audit culture has driven a scholar to murder - in fiction. Matthew Reisz investigates
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Case sets out the principled way to accept a gift
LSE awaits outcome of probe into Gaddafi regime gifts to publish guidelines. David Matthews reports
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'Concentrate on overall experience, not jobs'
Too much emphasis on graduate employability in Key Information Sets could play into the hands of private for-profit providers at the expense of universities, a vice-chancellor has warned.
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The Mad Square: Modernity in German Art 1910-37
A diverse collection of artworks from the Weimar period focused on sex and death make an astonishing show, Peter Hill says
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The Pick - The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons
Credit: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionThe First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah SiddonsNational Portrait Gallery, London, until 8 January 2012Because Covent Garden was famous for...
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NottinghamKlaus Weber: If you leave me I'm not comingThe works of Klaus Weber, as this wide-ranging exhibition at Nottingham Contemporary (22 October until 8 January 2012) reveals, constantly call...
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'Willetts is innocent' - v-c
Our vice-chancellor has described academic suspicions about the significance of David Willetts' regular meetings with private providers of higher education as "absurdly paranoid".He agrees that "on...
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TV review: Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey
Joanna Lumley's honeyed charm wins over everyone she meets on her tour of Greece, says Gary Day
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Film review: We Need To Talk About Kevin
Will Brooker explores the unsettling juxtaposition of self and other in Lynne Ramsay's skilful adaptation