‘Growing disconnect’ between students and UK universities
Students feeling lonely and ‘underwhelmed’ by university experience, warns UPP Foundation report based on survey and focus groups
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UK plans national academy for mathematics
Government hopes new institution will help to upskill the country’s workforce and grow the economy
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Campus security is deepening institutional racism in UK HE
Our research suggests students of colour are more likely to have negative encounters with campus guards, say Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly
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UK reliance on overseas students an ‘uncomfortable reality’
Vice-chancellors warn that UK government immigration policy is behind fall in international recruitment by having ‘negative impact on perceptions’
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No retreating to Little England
I was an early reader. Let me be precise: I was an early reader of the Treaty of Rome. It was the 1960s and I was in my first job. I was told to write a paper on the policy implications of the Treaty...
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UK is shutting itself off
Over the past year, we have repeatedly said that the UK government’s “brightest and the best” message has been badly received in India and has affected student recruitment. So it was gratifying to...
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The UK plc roadshow
Shadowing the speed-dating expats who recruit for British universities, Caroline Knowles finds that their hypermobile lives parallel those of the students they pursue
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The Tudor Queens of England
Recently, "our greatest living historian", David Starkey, announced that Tudor queens were not important - admittedly after writing about them himself, when a rather different view was put forward....
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A Lesbian History of Britain
Rebecca Jennings's book is a neat overview of published material on lesbian history of the past 30 years. It is not a lone historical study that unearths much original material, being more of a...
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Unwelcoming UK
The puzzled tone that informs your article "Worries grow as Chinese shun UK" (September 2) is surprising given the widely publicised refusal of study visas to substantial numbers of bona fide Chinese...
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UK costs way over Down Under
The cost of living for international students in the United Kingdom is 45 per cent higher than in Australia. The UK was the most expensive of five countries examined in a survey carried by IDP...
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Latest UK news
ILAs to be axed Individual learning accounts are to be abolished, the education secretary Estelle Morris will announce today. While the scheme was successful in promoting learning, it was deemed too...
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From today's UK papers
Colleges need private tie-ups Britain's universities need to link more effectively with the private sector to drive forward technological innovation and the creation of successful industrial clusters...
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From today's UK papers
A-level paper with same old questions Calls for an independent investigation into examination boards were renewed yesterday when it emerged that A-level students have just sat an economics paper that...