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KenyaBonds: licence to expandKenya plans to sell 10 billion shillings (£79.5 million) of bonds to finance an expansion of its universities that would stop students from being turned away owing to...
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Title bout, but Oz academy has bigger fights ahead
Ministerial 'bungle' distracts attention from sector's major problems. Simon Baker writes
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Blogconfidential: Gang of four becomes two
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online
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Appointments
Yale UniversityDaniel SpielmanDaniel Spielman, professor of computer science and applied mathematics at Yale University, has won the Rolf Nevanlinna Prize, one of the highest honours in his field....
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The Week in Higher Education
One of the UK's most prestigious research-intensive universities has wealth on a par with a small liberal arts college in rural Missouri. This is one of the lessons from a league table of university...
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Graduate tax ruled out as 'unworkable'
Business secretary still seeks progressive system linking payments to earnings. Simon Baker reports
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Cable: 'Something has to be cut - tell me what the priorities are'
Vince Cable used a fringe meeting at the Liberal Democrat party conference to defend his stance on cutting some science funding in the forthcoming public spending review.
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Universities are blind to open-learning train set to smash up their models
Open learning and new technology are about to smash the structure of the modern university - and higher education is too distracted by its funding problems to notice.Peter Smith, the senior vice-...
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Nobel predictions dominated by US
Canada, Japan, France and UK are home to just a quarter of forecast prizewinners, writes Paul Jump
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Arts disciplines make their case to minister for science
David Willetts tells the British Academy that the government values its work. Matthew Reisz reports
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UK values the 'soft' rewards of going global
The notion that British universities are motivated mainly by money in their enthusiasm for internationalisation is misguided, according to a senior UK academic.Christine Ennew, the pro vice-...
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Logged out of Facebook to network with their neurons
Students at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology found themselves forbidden from using the Facebook social networking website at the start of the new semester as part of a week-long...
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Bigger bursaries are not better at attracting poor
Offa chief suggests cash should go to outreach in schools instead, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Union draws ire for its decision to hold fire
The leadership of the University and College Union is under fire from the Left of the organisation amid accusations that its retreat from a national strike ballot is a "debacle" that demolishes any...
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Global Impact: Revamped rankings cause elation and consternation
Delight in US, gloom in Europe and scratching of heads in Australia. Phil Baty assesses reactions