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Anger as Cambridge cuts three languages The University of Cambridge is under fire over proposals to reduce teaching of Portuguese, Hindi and Sanskrit. Portuguese is to be cut back to a single paper “...
Anger as Cambridge cuts three languages The University of Cambridge is under fire over proposals to reduce teaching of Portuguese, Hindi and Sanskrit. Portuguese is to be cut back to a single paper “...
Refugee participation in tertiary education rises from 1 to 6 per cent in four years but much more needs to be done, congress hears
Academy ‘at the heart’ of humanity’s failures to get to grips with scale of the issue, warns president of Arizona State University
Students sitting too many A-levels, says Cambridge Pupils who take strings of A levels could be putting themselves at a disadvantage in the competition for places at Cambridge, it emerged yesterday....
Higher pass rate drops for first time since 2002 Rising pass rates for Scotland's flagship exam suffered a blip this year, according to results released today. Figures show that the proportion of...
Soas resumes talks over library cuts Negotiations over the future of one of the UK's leading specialist libraries will resume tomorrow, amid protests from academic staff. The School of Oriental and...
Students and universities condemn visa increase University leaders and students joined forces to condemn higher visa charges announced by the Government today. The Foreign Office announced changes to...
Library faces higher fee than bars under licensing law Under the Government's much criticised Licensing Act, the fees levied on the British Library, whose visitors have yet to attract complaints of...
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...
Colleges to be urged to use Open University Students of shortage subjects such as science or modern languages could soon be taking hybrid degrees based on Open University courses, under plans being...
Scots physics pool to challenge Oxbridge Scottish universities have begun to create a single physics "superdepartment" to compete with the scientific might of Oxbridge and Imperial, in a move that...
Police fund visit by academic who justifies suicide bombings A victim support group has questioned why an Islamic academic who justifies suicide bombings has been invited to speak at a London...
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....
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...
Sex scandal rocks Italian campus An Italian professor acquitted of trading better grades for sex has boasted of his videotaped affairs with a series of young women in an interview with La Stampa...