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Asian students flocking to Australia Australia is growing in popularity among Asian students, while the UK and the US are losing ground as the place to study for a degree, claims an international...
Asian students flocking to Australia Australia is growing in popularity among Asian students, while the UK and the US are losing ground as the place to study for a degree, claims an international...
Publishers in challenge to Google bid to scan libraries Academic publishers are challenging Google’s plan to scan millions of library books into its web search engine index. They fear the ambitious...
College cuts ties with Islamic institute A university has severed its ties with an Islamic college alleged to have links with a radical cleric who is likely to be banned from entering Britain. The...
Reox given £5m boost by US biotech Reox, a company spun out of Oxford University by four professors, is believed to have struck a deal with the American biotech Amgen, providing it with £5 million...
Experts just want better robots, says Prince The Prince of Wales yesterday accused education policy-makers of seeking to turn students into "better robots" rather than filling them with a love of...
Historians fear crank calls over freedom act Fears are growing that a flood of requests from cranks and obsessives seeking information will prevent civil servants from dealing with normal...
Professor recounts blast trauma A research professor of sociology at Brunel University spoke publicly yesterday for the first time since a photograph of his heavily blood-stained face, taken shortly...
UK campuses don’t rate Good news for British universities: Singapore wants to send students here to study science. The bad news is that only Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London are of any...
Pressing problem for Durham's student paper One of Britain’s best-known student newspapers - the Durham University Palatinate - is facing an uncertain future as a result of a worsening...
Cambridge 'abuse' of monkeys prompts legal review Anti-vivisection campaigners have won the right to challenge the legality of animal experiments at Cambridge University after evidence emerged that...
Students' watchdog upholds complaint against Oxford Brookes A complaint made by a group of osteopathy undergraduates against Oxford Brookes University has been upheld by the watchdog for students. In...
'Gifted' tick box that could cost pupils a university place Sixth-formers competing for places at leading universities may lose out if they have not signed up to a scheme for gifted children because...
Scots must stage U-turn on top-up fees, says professor A leading academic who sat on a review group which recommended the introduction of top-up tuition fees in Wales last night called on the...
Degrees may be scrapped for US-style system Traditional university degree classifications that award students first, second, or third-class honours degrees should be abandoned, according to a report...
Lecturers vote to boycott Israeli universities A leading union voted to boycott two Israeli universities which it accused of being complicit in the abuse of Palestinians in the occupied territories....