...but fears big money problems if top-ups rise
The Welsh Assembly would be forced to abandon its new funding regime for higher education if a predicted rise in top-up fees in England to £5,000 a year went ahead, a leading Assembly member has...
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Brown ruled uneasy court
As Chancellor Gordon Brown boosted his credentials as prime minister-in-waiting by taking centre stage in Government this week, newly released archive records revealed how his 1970s move to centre...
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Web protest student gets 'death threat'
A law student who launched websites castigating his former university and encouraging students to report problems with their courses has contacted the police after receiving hate mail that he...
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See Emily play
A film by two lecturers at Teesside University has been voted Best Animated Film of 2005, beating the blockbuster Wallace and Gromit animation, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit . Clive Tonge and...
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Blunder defers debate
A major international conference to discuss the pros and cons of an academic boycott of Israeli universities has been postponed after organisers mistakenly included an article by a Holocaust denier...
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Israel boycott dispute back on AUT agenda
An academic boycott of Israeli universities over their Government's treatment of Palestinians was thrust firmly back on to the agenda of the Association of University Teachers this week, when a...
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Colleagues back tutor facing sack over e-mail
Academics have rallied in support of a Middlesex University professor who faces the sack after he vented his frustrations at red tape in a series of no-holds-barred e-mails to colleagues. Richard...
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Factions fight for key roles in merged union
Phil Baty discovers that the engagement between the AUT and Natfhe may not be running as smoothly as everyone wanted, with both partners vying to wear the trousers in their eventual marriage amid...
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Activists decry AUT's proposal to stand down equality body for a year
Phil Baty discovers that the engagement between the AUT and Natfhe may not be running as smoothly as everyone wanted, with both partners vying to wear the trousers in their eventual marriage amid...
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Chinese bid to get overseas fee boost
China has designated 53 of its universities and colleges to receive overseas students sponsored by foreign governments as it continues to work its balancing act with the education budget. The China...
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Tighter visa rules threat
The flood of fee-paying foreign students entering Australia's universities has slowed to a trickle, threatening the nation's A$7 billion (£3 billion)-a-year education export market. A collapse in the...
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Taiwan mayor looks to fill seats
Taiwan should consider allowing high-school graduates from mainland China to study in its universities and colleges, the Nationalist Party Kuomintang chairman Ma Ying-jeou has suggested, Michael...
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Sweden may end free education for non-EU learners
Non-European Union students studying in Sweden will face fees of 80,000 kronor (£6,000) a year if recommendations from a parliamentary committee are accepted. The committee - which includes key...
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Passing exams is a real gift
A student poll backed by Kyrgyzstan's ombudsman has identified the three most corrupt universities in the country and has revealed a cash-for-results culture among academics. Ombudsman Tursunbay...
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Students take on Pentagon
Students whose antiwar protests were recorded by the US military are using a legal manoeuvre to dig into Pentagon files that resulted from the spying. NBC News has reported that students who...