Scots look to reform funding
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council is consulting on a radical funding shift that would reward institutions for their success in delivering government priorities. The proposal comes in a...
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Sheffield scores AA minus
Sheffield University has become the fifth British university to publish its credit rating. Its AA minus rating puts it on a par with NatWest Bank, Reuters and Abbey National, and above Boots, BT and...
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Analysis: Means testify to the trends
Average A-level grades of university entrants are up, but figures give little support to some myths about higher education, Bernard Kingston argues National debates on educational standards regularly...
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Whistleblowers: QAA raps lax standards at Abertay's Greek post
The University of Abertay Dundee awarded honours degrees to students after a one-year programme designed and delivered by a Greek partner college "without any involvement of either an external...
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Whistleblowers: Cambridge breaks law by withholding data
Cambridge University has broken data-protection laws by not supplying personal information to Gill Evans, the history lecturer with whom the university is fighting a High Court battle. The compliance...
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Postgrad swap starts with 50
Fifty young researchers from the UK and the US are crossing the Atlantic this summer to work with their overseas counterparts as part of the first exchange programme run by the Worldwide Universities...
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'State pupils shouldn't get any favours'
Universities oppose positive discrimination for candidates from state schools, although some admit to a tacit bias, according to a poll of admissions officers. The THES poll shows that a majority of...
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Degrees rarer in over 55s
The percentage of people aged 25 to 34 with degree-level qualifications is almost double that of the 55-to-64 age cohort. Figures from the Labour Force Survey, used by higher education minister...
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Academic in Israeli jail on hunger strike
A Birmingham University research fellow is reported to be on hunger strike in an Israeli jail after being detained at a Palestinian refugee camp. The university confirmed that it was investigating...
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BMA refuses to sign minister's statement
The British Medical Association has refused to sign a statement on the development of team-working in the National Health Service, initiated by the health secretary Alan Milburn. After several...
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Campus breathes life into Scots town
A regeneration project in Dumfries, which includes the country's first multi-university campus, has won the supreme award in the Dynamic Place Awards run by Scottish Enterprise and Miller Ventures....
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Vote of no confidence in Oxford Brookes v-c
Students at Oxford Brookes University have passed a vote of no confidence in vice-chancellor Graham Upton over plans to axe courses in geology, civil engineering, chemistry and cartography. The vote...
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Loughborough to plug Midlands brain drain
Loughborough University has been chosen by the Department for Education and Skills to pioneer a course aimed at plugging the graduate "brain drain" in the East Midlands. The region traditionally...
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Government urged to welcome refugee dons
John Ashworth, former Cabinet Office chief scientist and director of the London School of Economics and new president of the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara), has cautioned the...
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Business school offers broader scope
The European Business School, based at Regents College in London, will offer postgraduate courses from September. The school has previously focused on undergraduate degrees, but it will now offer...