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Top-up fees solution may be in sight The Australian model of top-up fees funded by loans and repaid after graduation via the tax system is emerging as the frontrunner in the government's frantic...
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Debt the biggest block to 50 per cent target
Public funding must remain the mainstay of higher education, argues Diana Green Are current student finance arrangements a barrier to participation in higher education? Delivery of the government's...
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A man after his own art
At first glance they seem an odd couple - the professor of planetary sciences at the Open University who wants to send a space probe to Mars and the British artist who won the Turner Prize for a...
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£8bn budget for LSC
The Learning and Skills Council will command a budget of more than £8 billion next year, rising to £9.2 billion by 2005-06, education secretary Charles Clarke announced this week. He told the LSC's...
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Second gas leak
Wolverhampton University has suffered a second chemical gas leak. A student received medical attention and three members of staff were also examined by paramedics after inhaling gas last Friday. The...
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Rowling backs MS unit
Harry Potter creator J. K. Rowling is supporting a new multiple sclerosis research group at Aberdeen University, headed by leading experimental neuro-immunologist Chris Linington. Professor Linington...
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Diplomats talk peace
Most students on the MA diplomatic studies course at the centre of a row at the University of Westminster have signed a statement saying they support the course, the university said. Up to six...
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V-cs welcome bid to reform admissions
Vice-chancellors this week welcomed the suggestion that a post-qualification admissions system - in which students apply for university after receiving their exam results - could work if the academic...
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Antarctic peak gets a Stirling moniker
Stirling University is said to be one of the most beautiful campuses in the country. Its historic Airthrey estate has now been "twinned" with a mountain in what is said to be one of the most...
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World wakes up to 505m-year-old ugly bug
For decades, a bizarre, grub-like creature called Hallucigenia has stumped experts. But next week a true likeness of 505 million-year-old animal will be unveiled at the Palaeontological Association's...
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Milburn warned of threat to growth
The health secretary's refusal to renegotiate the consultants' contract could exacerbate the shortage of medical academics and undermine the expansion of medical education, the British Medical...
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Row over funds for Welsh science
A paper calling for a properly funded science policy for Wales has caused a row between Welsh Assembly members and their ministers. The paper was submitted to the assembly's economic development...
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Proposal may help protect patents
Proposed changes to UK patent law could make it cheaper to apply for patents and make them easier to enforce and protect than at present. They could enable universities to make the most of the...
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Whistleblowers: MP censures Tameside over rule-breaking
Ministers have "strongly censured" the principal and governors of Tameside College for "wilfully" breaking the rules of governance when they removed the college clerk and chair of governors from...
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Whistleblowers: Oxford faces third hearing of race case
Oxford University may have to face allegations of race discrimination from black researcher Chinese Anya for a third time after the employment tribunal granted him leave to appeal against the latest...