Census aids push to hit 50% target
Revised population figures have given an unexpected boost to the government's pledge to get half of all 18 to 30-year-olds into higher education by 2010, allowing civil servants to lower the targets...
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Increase in number of entrants helped by support system boost
Some 2.8 per cent more students entered higher education last autumn compared with the previous year, according to data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A total of 368,115...
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Matriculation diploma moved to back burner
The government has shelved plans for the introduction of a "matriculation diploma", which was proposed last year in its green paper on 14-19 education, writes Tony Tysome. The idea will be set aside...
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Oxford traders are gown but not out
Oxford University has changed its rules for voting at the forthcoming election for chancellor. It has done away with the requirement to pay for an MA, and it is likely to end the requirement that...
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Universities do not deliver us good value for our money, students tell survey
Almost half of students think they do not get good value for money from their university course, a survey will reveal next week, writes writes Phil Baty. It is expected that the annual Unite student...
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Cash crisis sparks cuts
Hertfordshire University is to axe up to 100 jobs to head off a £4 million deficit. Vice-chancellor Neil Buxton said that 45 academic posts and about 45 administrative posts would be culled in the...
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Merger put in doubt
Thames Valley University's plans to merge with Reading College in September have stalled over fears about the effect on neighbouring further education colleges. Peter Holland of the Berkshire...
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Class angle on attrition
Researchers at Staffordshire University have secured £83,000 to discover why working-class students fail to enter further education and are more likely to drop out if they do. The Institute of Access...
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Sussex student raped
A 20-year-old woman was attacked and raped at the University of Sussex campus last Saturday. The attacker threatened to kill her, but ran off after a violent struggle in which the victim bit him on...
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Comet landing stalls
The European Space Agency has pulled the plug on the historic Rosetta mission to land a spacecraft on a comet. The postponement of the launch means that plans to rendezvous with the comet Wirtanen in...
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Israel universities close
Israel this week ordered the closure of Hebron University and Hebron Polytechnic University, Hisham Kuheil, the Palestinian deputy minister of higher education, said. But Bir Zeit, Al Quds and Al...
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Shine with your design
Network and desktop design publishing company Adobe Systems is offering design students the chance to win $5,000 (£3,100) and a trip to Chicago. Winners will also receive ten Adobe software products...
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Wary students shun maths career
The severe shortage of mathematics teachers could be linked to the way undergraduates are taught at university, a study has found. Researchers from Leeds University and King's College London followed...
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Child-abuse expert to sue police after raid on home
Criminologist Bill Thompson plans to file a lawsuit against the police after they raided his home and office as part of an investigation into child pornography. The investigation has apparently been...