Sector offers UK real value for money, v-cs claim
Figures show state school entrants on the rise and dropout rate falling, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Shaped by the fees fight: new leader sets agenda after landslide victory
NUS president-elect claims students have been let down by main parties. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Daytime TV: Party pieces
Gary Day is more entertained by Alastair Stewart's tie than he is by the three main political leaders
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‘Geek the vote’ and the battle of Bosworth
Scientists are being urged to take their prospective parliamentary candidates to task over the next fortnight to ensure that they are taking science seriously as an election issue.
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Hefce gets huffy
In a shock move, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has issued a strong condemnation of the postgraduate course on The Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism currently being taught by Mr Ted...
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Easy money? That's rich
Topping the salary table is not all it's made out to be, says Malcolm Gillies
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Research intelligence: Smart(phone) moves
Zoë Corbyn reports from Washington DC on journal publishers' plans to get a piece of the mobile action
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Leader: More than money is at stake
Exploiting foreign students may briefly bolster balance sheets, but such disrespectful treatment will cause long-term damage
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From where I sit: If the robes fit...
Just when you think that things will get serious, suddenly they become absurd.On 1 April, the Right to Education Act in India was implemented, which makes school education a fundamental right for all...
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Obituary: Sir James Black, 1924-2010
A Nobel laureate who pioneered two major advances in 20th-century medicine has died.Sir James Black was born in Lanarkshire on 14 June 1924 and educated at Beath High School, where pressure from a...
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Figures show we must brush up our stats 1
Statistical skills are in short supply in social research, according to both the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Social Fund ("Quantitative is qualitative" and "Europe, know...
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Figures show we must brush up our stats 2
It was good to see a short report in last week's Times Higher Education on the ESRC's International Benchmarking Review of UK Sociology ("Quantitative is qualitative"). While you rightly pointed to...
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Fees? No way 1
It was disappointing, although not unexpected, to see yet another story in THE dedicated to reopening the question of tuition fees in Scotland ("Ready to charge?", 15 April). The scarcity of...
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Fees? No way 2
It is simply not the case that Scottish universities have not charged tuition fees for a decade. Fees for full-time undergraduates may have been abolished in 2000, but part-time students continue to...