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Scholars condemn Bush policies More than 650 foreign affairs experts have signed an open letter condemning the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, accusing it of harming the struggle against...
Scholars condemn Bush policies More than 650 foreign affairs experts have signed an open letter condemning the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, accusing it of harming the struggle against...
Chancellor backs PM on top-up fees The prime minister's hopes of heading off a backbench rebellion on university top-up fees received a boost yesterday when supporters of...
Chancellor backs PM on top-up fees The prime minister's hopes of heading off a backbench rebellion on university top-up fees received a boost yesterday when supporters of...
Oxford professor suspended for rejecting Israeli Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology at Oxford University and fellow of Pembroke College, has been suspended for two months for rejecting...
Oxford professor suspended for rejecting Israeli Andrew Wilkie, Nuffield professor of pathology at Oxford University and fellow of Pembroke College, has been suspended for two months for rejecting...
Help for poor may stop top-up fees revolt Leading universities will be forced to fund bursaries for poorer students from a £300 million annual levy imposed by ministers on their income from top-up...
Top-ups are non-negotiable, says Johnson Academics will sacrifice the chance of a decent pay rise if they fail to back the government over top-up fees, higher education minister Alan Johnson said...
Tomlinson schools exam proposals welcomed Teachers today welcomed recommendations by former Ofsted chief, Mike Tomlinson, to replace A levels and GCSEs with a baccalaureate-style diploma and sought...
Tomlinson schools exam proposals welcomed Teachers today welcomed recommendations by former Ofsted chief, Mike Tomlinson, to replace A levels and GCSEs with a baccalaureate-style diploma and sought...
Red tape delays cancer cures, researchers say The search for cures for cancer and other diseases is being strangled by red tape from Brussels and Westminster, scientists from Cancer Research UK said...
Cash crunch threatens expansion, v-c says The financial position of Britain’s universities is now unsustainable and they may be unable to meet the government’s demands to expand student numbers and...
Hodge strengthens pledge to increase graduate numbers University vice-chancellors will be told this week that there is no going back on the government’s pledge to give half the population a...
Tributes paid to a towering figure from ‘a great generation of politically engaged South African academics’
Son of Nobel laureate and radical historian who forged his own path as a mathematician and activist remembered
Tributes paid to ‘one of the architects of the black psychology movement’