No limits: time to ignore Hefce?
Minutes show that UCL board mooted flouting cap on numbers to fill budget gap, writes Simon Baker
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Ucas' day job to get all fees online
But service is forced to scrap printed guide due to uncertainty over reforms, writes Rebecca Attwood
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£9K fees ‘difficult to defend’, says Willetts
Students being forgotten in rush to top of cap, David Willetts claims. John Morgan reports
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Sun sets on Western dominance as East Asian Confucian model takes lead
The US approach to higher education is no longer the world leader as the "Confucian model" has put East Asia's universities at the cutting edge.This was the argument set out by Simon Marginson,...
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Stressed lecturer - or satisfied schoolteacher?
Talent-spotting college master promises research time and keen students. Sarah Cunnane reports
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News in Brief
Research misconductUEL to investigate lecturerThe University of East London has confirmed that it is formally investigating one of its academics after more allegations of research misconduct against...
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Time to spread their wings
To keep up with the global sector's rising stars, the UK must encourage its young to study abroad, says Martin Davidson
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Urgently required: a White Paper to carry out the Browne vision
We must move beyond partisanship and seize the chance to make our higher education system truly sustainable, David Eastwood contends
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Chthonic and iconic
David Walsh, the multimillionaire gambler turned cultural patron, has dug deep for art - literally. Peter Hill descends into the heart of the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania
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Diary
LondonLearning to Dwell: Adolf Loos in the Czech LandsPioneering modernist architect Adolf Loos (1870-1933) is probably most famous for work in Vienna such as the Cafe Museum and the Karntner (...
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The Pick - Humanity in War
Humanity in WarNational War Museum, Edinburgh From 25 February until January 2012The Red Cross, founded in the 1860s, has a history that runs closely parallel with that of photography. The archives...
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Science - but not as we know it
"We're thinking along very similar lines." That was the response of our Head of Macrame Studies, Professor Sylvia Hitching, to the claim by Michael Earley, principal of the Rose Bruford College of...
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That sinking feeling
US undergraduates' lack of learning bodes ill for the UK, says Alan Ryan
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Leader: America's pyrrhic victory
The US has some outstanding universities, but there is a dark side to its achievements, which the UK would do well to avoid
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Research intelligence - Tiny steps to new world, but UK is stumbling
Nobel laureate excoriates the 'butchers' blocking progress in nanoscience. Paul Jump reports