After 12 years, University of West London removed from ‘at risk’ list
A university that has been on the funding council’s “at risk” list for 12 years – longer than any other in England – has been removed from the register.
A university that has been on the funding council’s “at risk” list for 12 years – longer than any other in England – has been removed from the register.

By Elizabeth Murphy, for Inside Higher Ed
Five times as many further education colleges as universities have bid for places under the government’s cut-price student numbers margin in 2012-13.

Tuition fee waivers should be scrapped in favour of bursaries, according to a former president of the National Union of Students.
The UK remains the top destination for students from the US looking to study abroad.

A Turner Prize-winning artist has criticised a decision by a university art school to concentrate more on digital-based courses in a restructure that threatens around a dozen jobs.
A professor of English studies at the University of Strathclyde has been named as the new director of research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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