ELQ loans could turn part-time rhetoric into reality
Ministers advised to reverse ban on second degree funding
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Hefce unveils allocations for 2013-14
Further shrinkage as funding reforms take fuller effect
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Life after Aimhigher: access from the ground level
The sector should take the lead on the mooted national widening-participation framework, says Graeme Atherton
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QAA queries UK's most international degree course
Foreign students struggle to gain recognition for Oxford Brookes’ distance-learning qualification.
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Concern over ‘one-size-fits-all’ visa service fee
Premium route to highly trusted sponsor status will cost £8k a year. David Matthews reports
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Universities pay thrice for open access: Durham v-c
Christopher Higgins details academy’s cost burden to Booksellers Association conference
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Futurelearn’s boss on breaking into Moocs
Simon Nelson brings BBC experience to the launch of the UK’s first course platform. Chris Parr reports
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Echo of big brand sounds
Your latest set of World Reputation Rankings nicely demonstrate the circular reasoning that characterises much of the thinking about university reputations and branding. Your data come from asking...
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Grant winners - 21 March 2013
Royal SocietyResearch GrantsAward winner: Huiling ZhuInstitution: University of KentValue: £13,480Development of energy-efficient radio resource allocation algorithms Leverhulme TrustResearch...
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NUS can rebuild links between education and citizenship
Despite hard times and fruitless protest, there is still power in a union, argues David Reed
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Inflated offers students can’t refuse
Tutor warns of efforts to ‘sucker’ applicants as institutions game system
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Sex scandals and false accusations of abuse
Felipe Fernández-Armesto calls for clearer protocols in cases of suspected abuse
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Mass suicide bid averted
Death before dishonourOnly quick thinking by one of our campus security patrols has halted a mass suicide bid by 22 Poppleton academics.According to well-informed reports, the academics were seen...
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To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist by Evgeny Morozov
Tara Brabazon on the hypocrisy of digital utopianism
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14 - 21 March 2013 - The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories