Focus on basic skills training not HE, say MPs
Committee cites downturn in calling for Government to drop participation targets. Hannah Fearn reports
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Original features
The Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House was built in 1878 as polite society's answer to the kind of brash popular entertainment on offer in the music halls of the day. It was shut down in 2005 but,...
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Liverpool Hope and charity split
Hope One World quits campus rather than cede control to the university, writes Melanie Newman
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20 years ago
Staffordshire Polytechnic is in the midst of a wrangle with the police and the county council over assets that could mean the loss of £250,000 and a library. It has asked the Education Assets Board...
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News in brief
Undergraduate admissionsUcas records 10 per cent growthThe number of full-time students accepted on to undergraduate courses is up 10 per cent. Final figures from the Universities and Colleges...
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Fees do not harm access, says architect of policy
Children's attainment is the key for the sector, argues Nick Barr. John Gill reports
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'Ragbag' American system comes in for some stick
Few would dispute that the US university system is the strongest in the world, but that did not stop it coming in for robust criticism at the Times Higher Education-Hepi debate in London last week....
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Ideology alone is not enough to bar entry to US, judge says
Government must explain why visas are denied to foreign scholars, ruling states. Jon Marcus reportsA court has reversed one of a series of decisions by the US Government to deny visas to...
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Obama exploits academe to staff his White House
President Barack Obama's White House will have enough academics among its top appointees to teach a full curriculum.President Obama, who attended Harvard Law School, taught constitutional law at the...
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Overseas briefing
AustraliaIrrigation findings discreditedA university has had to backtrack from the findings of some of its most senior scientists after a study of irrigation in a parched area of Australia was...
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Grant winners
ACTION MEDICAL RESEARCHAward winner: M. CostaInstitution: Warwick Medical School, University of WarwickValue: £91,470Randomised clinical trial of total knee arthroplasty versus patellofemoral...
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It's time to feed fresh talent
Both the academy and society will benefit if pockets of excellence identified by the RAE are funded, says Alice Hynes
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Dragons and dinosaur views: the Chinese enigma that isn't
The West believes China to be immutable and inscrutable, but in truth we are much more alike than we are different, says Peter Brady
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Research elite fear Hefce may approach funding formula with a 'straight bat'
The elite research-intensive universities are unlikely to be given any special protection against funding cuts when the formula for distributing more than £1.5 billion a year to support research is...
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The week in higher education
A "hands-on experiment" was as good a pun as The Independent could muster in its coverage of research that suggests that finger length can predict a person's future. The study by scientists at the...