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Cambridge denies plan to charge top-up fees The vice-chancellor of Cambridge University yesterday sought to stop speculation that Britain's top colleges were all secretly preparing detailed plans to...
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Bush asked to lobby for professor's release
Human Rights Watch has called on US president George W. Bush to use this week's summit with Chinese president Jiang Zemin to press for the release of historian Xu Zerong. He was jailed earlier this...
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Lecturer to teach new tricks to help old dogs
The world's first lecturer in veterinary physiotherapy has been appointed by the Royal Veterinary College. Tracy Crook, 40, who has been a practitioner in physiotherapy for dogs and horses for the...
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Priceless texts lent to US
Edinburgh University library is lending two priceless Islamic art manuscripts to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for an exhibition on "The Legacy of Genghis Khan". Rashid al-Din's History of...
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Oxford's tutorials cut to aid research
The Oxford one-to-one tutorial is being eroded to allow academics more time to do research. Group seminars of up to ten students have already replaced some tutorials in economics and are being...
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Bristol awarded top AA credit rating
Bristol University has been given an AA credit rating by Standard & Poor's, the international ratings agency. It is the highest rating yet among UK universities. Institutions seek ratings to...
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King's in power bid after talk of merger
The future of the University of London is in doubt after King's College London announced it plans to seek its own degree-awarding powers. The move came after King's learnt of the proposed merger...
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MPs and celebrities unite in stand against fees
Imperial's plans for fees and merger with UCL spur protest and strategy talks A campaign against top-up fees gathered momentum this week, with MPs, trade unions and even the odd celebrity raising...
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Union: 'promise was broken'
A row over job contracts is rocking London Metropolitan University, formed from the merger of London Guildhall University and the University of North London two months ago, writes Alison Goddard....
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Yorkshire partnership is on cards
Huddersfield University could be dissolved within two years to make way for a new university serving West and South Yorkshire. Huddersfield announced on Wednesday that it was entering detailed merger...
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Academics called on to foster unity
Despite the collapse of the Northern Ireland Executive, academics throughout Ireland are under great pressure to make cross-border cooperation a reality. Malcolm Skilbeck, former deputy director for...
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Peaceline project stalls
Ulster University has pulled out of the Springvale project to build a "peaceline campus" in north and west Belfast because the private-finance initiative faces a multimillion-pound shortfall. But a...
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Public trust is crumbling
Northern Ireland's peace process has been driven forward by politicians' lies and manipulation, and the discovery of this is undermining public trust in politics, according to Ulster University...
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Study finds aspiration, not cash, is key to selling campus life
Raising youngsters' aspirations is a more effective way of getting them into higher education than offering financial incentives, according to a US study. The work by Nobel laureate James Heckman and...
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Science robbed of £2bn
Universities subsidise research commissioned by outside bodies to the tune of £2 billion a year, it was revealed this week. The full extent of the funding gap emerged from an official review that did...