Coming round again
Michael Scott, vice-chancellor of Glyndwr University, claims his institution is being brave and bold in having a "lower-cost, highly vocational" university education that will be "open to all" ("'...
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Action Nerd
I don't think I would have gone into science had I not been influenced by gender programming via the many exciting ranges of scientist action figure toys ("Where is Physics Barbie?", 25 August).Ultra...
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Totally bogus
I was most amused to read David Willetts' comments that it should be possible for someone to "rent an office block and say you could study here for five key vocational qualifications" (The week in...
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Something's lacking
"Interviews with Indian villagers have cast doubt on whether wealth is the best measure of poverty" (Campus round-up, 1 September): I think the researchers actually found that lack of wealth was a...
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Nine grand means drop in demand, study finds
Research that suggests university enrolment could fall by at least 5 per cent due to higher tuition fees has been seized upon by the National Union of Students as a “stark warning” that the...
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Students' weakness in maths leaves academics counting the cost
Physics and engineering academics are having to teach students who are unprepared for their courses because of “a gap in knowledge” on maths, the Institute of Physics has warned.
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BPP undercuts universities on fees
The UK’s only for-profit provider with degree-awarding powers has undercut almost all English universities with its tuition fees for 2012-13 by planning to charge undergraduates between £12,000 and £...
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Edinburgh’s 'rest-of-UK' fees head north to £36,000
The University of Edinburgh has announced it will charge undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to £36,000 for a degree.
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Inside Higher Ed: Relationship problems
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
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World University Rankings 2011-12 methodology revealed
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings is today unveiled by Times Higher Education, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday 6 October 2011.
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Efforts to secure student feedback 'missing the mark'
Attempts by universities to seek out and respond to student feedback are often inadequate or poorly executed, a new study suggests.
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Teachers urged to challenge academics for role as public intellectuals
Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country’s new “intellectual guardians”, the head of Britain’s teacher training body has said.
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King’s chemistry department rises again
King’s College London has re-opened its chemistry department eight years after concluding that it was unsustainable.
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The returns from a degree: Hesa stats reveal winners and losers
Graduates who left university in 2007 are more likely to be unemployed than those who graduated earlier in the decade, new figures reveal.
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Education expert warns of threat to 'care home students'
Changes to the university funding regime will bring an “abrupt halt” to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.