Private path for foreign students
Three universities partner firm to provide one-year cramming courses, writes Rebecca Attwood
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Universities are cashing in on full fee-paying overseas students taking up university places for which they are unqualified. Accusations of "double standards" were levelled at British universities...
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News in brief
University and College Union WalesSolidarity breaks downA breach has opened up in the University and College Union Wales between representatives of higher and further education institutions. UCU...
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Fair-minded
Lynne Frostick is honoured to receive an accolade, but says men must do their share at home for women to excel at work
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Appointments
The London School of Economics has recruited Niall Ferguson to a chair in international history. Professor Ferguson, an academic historian, journalist and television presenter, holds positions at...
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Daytime TV: Gone to seed
Gary Day is astounded that conception happens at all while being appalled at wasted young lives
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Lapping tops Kant
Our Vice-Chancellor has "warmly welcomed" the news that Professor Gordon Lapping of our Media and Cultural Studies Department triumphed over Immanuel Kant in the newly published league table of the...
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An Ofqual, not QAA, is needed for standards
Inspectorate to approve degrees would do sector good, MPs are told. Rebecca Attwood reports
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The spirit of greatness
Felipe Fernández-Armesto recognises the strength of the US is in its people
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Talk to a reporter - you may learn how to get your message across
Don't run from the media: engaging with journalists can help you hone your thoughts and words - at least once the panic subsides, says Chris Hackley
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Leader: It's time to show some audacity
Blue-skies research could help lead the UK out of recession, but only if ministers give scientists the freedom to operate
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From where I sit - Beggared by our own universities
The current economic crisis proves everything leftists have ever said about the follies and cruelties of utopian capitalism - truly enough, anyway, to afford a moment at Wall Street's expense, and a...
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Roy Anthony Becher, 1930-2009
Roy Anthony Becher, a founding father of higher education research in Britain, has died.He was born in Poona, India, where his father was officiating director of artillery at Army Headquarters, on 19...
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Oxford tutor accused of professional jealousy
A popular biographer has accused her former University of Oxford tutor of "potent professional jealousy", in a row over credits in her work on Jane Austen.