Reasoning skills can open door
While some universities welcome admissions tests, others fear they will exclude students from poor backgrounds. Five years ago, Cambridge University enlisted local expertise to devise a test to help...
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From welding to law
While some universities welcome admissions tests, others fear they will exclude students from poor backgrounds. Alan Thomson looks at the arguments Billy Watt, an apprentice welder-turned-law-student...
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Why I...believe genetic modification could be good for sport and society
Andy Miah Lecturer in media, bioethics and cyberculture Paisley University The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens takes place under a cloud of controversy - not because people are...
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Nelson to oust Nazis
The excessive focus on Nazi history in schools may be on the wane, suggests Peter Furtado Educationists worry about the sway the Nazis hold in schools. Ofsted recently said that secondary schools...
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Only the privileged need apply
Too little attention has been paid to the financial plight of postgraduates, argues Tim Brown Unexpectedly, the Higher Education Bill has brought postgraduate students good news. For some years the...
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Advanced Highers a Scots success story
Qualifications officials were this week celebrating record entries and rising pass rates in the exam designed to be Scotland's main route for high-fliers into university. Advanced Highers, which...
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Hefce 'buy-off' cash rejected
Northumbria University has turned down a £150,000 payment from the funding council, describing it as an attempt to "buy off" the institution's threatened legal action over the £185 million Higher...
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Medics and artists top job league
Historians and philosophy students are more likely to land jobs immediately after graduation than computer scientists, according to figures. The latest data released by the Higher Education...
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Doncaster edges closer towards new status
Doncaster took a "major step" towards gaining its own university today as a further education college campus was officially designated a "University Centre". Leaders of the Doncaster Education City...
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£50m to coax Welsh to pool their ideas
A £50 million carrot is being dangled before Welsh universities and colleges in an increasingly desperate bid by the funding council to encourage them to merge and to form strategic alliances, writes...
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Elite: fork out for research
Australia's elite research-intensive universities have praised UK Chancellor Gordon Brown's commitment to increase science spending in Britain. But the Group of Eight angered Brendan Nelson, Federal...
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South Africa to replenish science after drought
South Africa's Department of Science and Technology aims to double national spending on research and development over the next six years. Universities and the country's array of science councils hope...
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Italy revives its cultural past with a mix-and-match haven for artists
Rome's academies of art, music, theatre and dance, some of which date back to the Renaissance and Baroque periods, are to merge into one multidisciplinary "arts pole" where students can mix-and-match...
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Bush push to publish accreditation
The Bush Administration and Republicans in the US Congress want university accreditation reports - mostly confidential - to be made available to students and their parents. For more than a century,...
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Court to hear case for fees
Germany may have to abandon its nationwide ban on tuition fees if the Government is told to amend a law on higher education it passed several years ago. The federal constitutional court is to hear a...