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Exams system 'near collapse' The exam system is near to collapse and must be overhauled, the new head of the troubled qualifications watchdog warned yesterday. Ken Boston, the Australian who arrived...
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'Scarfies' add up
Universities revitalise local economies, providing jobs and bringing students and their cash to town. The THES reports on their impact worldwide Dunedin is renowned for its vibrant student life. But...
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Students can always be relied on to drink...
Universities revitalise local economies, providing jobs and bringing students and their cash to town. The THES reports on their impact worldwide One thing remains constant in Austria's rapidly...
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La vie est belle as freshers land on French doorsteps
Universities revitalise local economies, providing jobs and bringing students and their cash to town. The THES reports on their impact worldwide The rapid expansion of higher education in the 1990s...
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Aussie unions fight fees hike
More than 1 million Australians owe the federal government A$8 billion (£2.8 billion) in deferred university tuition payments under the Higher Education Contribution Scheme. The debt for individual...
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Costs deter US college take-up
University opportunity in the US is at a standstill, with virtually no increase in the number of students enrolling in, or completing, college, according to an independent report that says the...
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Indian physicists create website to put spotlight on 'plagiarists'
Indian physicists have set up a website to detail allegations of plagiarism against a vice-chancellor of an Indian university and a fellow researcher. They acted after a published paper under the...
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Irish voters riled
A hint of a return to higher education tuition fees in Ireland - abolished six years ago - has led to political confusion in the run-up to this month's referendum on the European Union. Political...
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Rectors threaten walk-out
The rectors of Italy's universities have threatened to resign en masse if the government goes ahead with a cut in resources for higher education and research. In a separate development, Italy's...
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Don's diary: search for 'Palaeolithic Pompeii'
Tuesday With my invitation and £120 in hand, I join the visa scrum and aim for Russia. I am off to examine an ancient volcanic deposit buried deep beneath the Steppe, in a layer close to where...
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In the news: C. elegans
Simplicity was always the key to Caenorhabditis elegans' success. This transparent worm, just a millimetre in length, thrives throughout the world yet is among the most primitive organisms imaginable...
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Bath's goal is FA glory
Only two more victories to go before the first university side for more than 100 years reaches the FA Cup as we know it. Team Bath will appear in a third-round qualifier. The team - whose players...
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Riding high on ratings
In ten days, Sarah Waters will learn whether she has won the Booker prize for her novel Fingersmith . She has become the bookies' second favourite since a television adaptation of her first book,...
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The only link?
On the stroke of noon today it will be revealed whether Chris Woodhead, formerly England's chief inspector of schools and now research professor at the University of Buckingham, is extending his...
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No Grant for Hodge
Higher education minister Margaret Hodge - who memorably informed delegates that she had left her old council stamping ground, Islington, with the phrase "I'm not Islington any more. I'm Barking" -...