Labour's plan to cap tuition fees may be a 'graduate tax'
Top earners would 'overpay' under scheme vaunted at party's annual conference. Simon Baker reports
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Lancaster and Liverpool aim to strengthen global hand with 'federal structure' collaboration
Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool could unite to form a "federal structure" akin to the University of California as other research-intensive universities explore collaborations to...
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Scottish matchmaker earns scorn for proposal
The Scottish Funding Council has stressed that "no decisions have been taken" after it emerged that it had asked the University of Dundee and the University of Abertay Dundee to consider merging.
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Robust UK research climate cannot be taken for granted
Highly productive sector must be creative to keep up without new funds, study says. Paul Jump reports
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Academic life unfair, say women of a certain age
Women in their forties and early fifties are the least satisfied among principal investigators with the way they are treated by their universities, a survey has found.
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Exclusive elite fails to attract poorer students
Twenty-three higher education institutions failed to hit their targets for attracting students from poor families, new figures show.
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York St John's policing of standards worries QAA
Audit results in 'limited confidence' verdict and call for some external oversight. Jack Grove writes
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Peace talks on a pressing matter
Publishers, scholars, funders must seek consensus, says the head of a new task force. John Gill reports
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News in brief
White Paper consultationNew Year, new universities billThe government is expected to issue an official response to separate consultations on the higher education White Paper and the regulation of the...
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Penalty for early repayment of fee loans is wrong, says Which?
Consumer rights champion Which? has urged the government to scrap plans to penalise students who repay their tuition fee loans early.
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Joy at science's CSR result sours as fiscal reality bites
Cuts and inflation eat away at spending review deal - and researchers' goodwill. John Gill writes
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Salford's bold move to MediaCity's lights, cameras and action
£30m campus in broadcast hub will boost industry links and graduate prospects, v-c tells John Morgan
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Unsensational news
A specialist journalistic organisation could allow academics to explain their work without distortion, suggests Peter Geoghegan
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On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence
Freedom withers if a culture of 'therapeutic censorship' flourishes, argues Mary Warnock
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A Martian Stranded on Earth: Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science
Adept interlacing of three aspects of an influential Russian polymath impresses Yvonne Howell