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To give the university some credit - and they don't deserve much - the pressure is less to pass students who are borderline than to revise module requirements to ensure that they pass. For example,...
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Students providing replica replies are cleared of plagiarism - because module leader supplied model answers in advance of exams
"There appears to be a serious plagiarism problem," a Middlesex University tutor wrote in an urgent email tocolleagues thissummer. A large batch of exam papers from a group of undergraduates sitting...
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Visa clampdown delivers £30m fees income blow
Universities have lost about £30 million in vital tuition fee income this year as a result of a Government clampdown on visa applications from overseas students, the Conservatives claimed this week....
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UK drive to boost overseas numbers
The Government this week urged universities and colleges to boost their contribution to the UK economy by recruiting more overseas students and becoming global centres of excellence for teaching and...
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Long view
The report Cross-Border Higher Education: An Analysis of Current Trends, Policy Strategies and Future Scenarios , published by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, suggests three scenarios...
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US part funds primer
Nottingham Trent University has set up one of the UK's first campus "prep schools" for overseas students in partnership with a US company. The International College, based at the university, will...
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'I know the value of flexibility for mature students'
Dame Sandra Burslem is well placed to understand the difficulties facing mature students - she enrolled on her first degree as a 28-year-old single mother. "I was a single parent and I enrolled at...
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Do more for older students, v-c says
The Government, academics and universities must do more for older students, a leading vice-chancellor said this week after figures revealed evidence of an increasingly ageing student body. Dame...
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NUS president may contest Clarke seat
Students' leader Kat Fletcher may stand as an anti-tuition fees candidate against Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, at the next general election, it emerged this week. Ms Fletcher, president...
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Sector seeks cross-party support in US
American universities face, at best, four years of stalemate with the re-election of George W. Bush and a Republican majority in the US House of Representatives, according to university lobbyists and...
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Joint project a first
An Australian state government has negotiated a deal to establish the country's first branch campus of an American university. South Australia's Labor Premier, Mike Rann, last week signed an...
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Supply of Arabic teachers impeded as demand soars
World events have fuelled growing demand for Arabic language courses at American universities, but visa restrictions have created a shortage of people who can teach it, writes Jon Marcus in Boston....
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370kph electric car is left standing
More than six months after a Japanese university professor unveiled the fastest car in the world - running on lithium ion batteries - only the troubled Mitsubishi Motors has expressed interest in the...
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Bologna is 'on track'
The Bologna Process of convergence of higher education systems across Europe is largely on track but more resources are needed to ensure that its universities keep up with the rest of the world,...
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Spain's digital divide
A Spanish rector has criticised the digital divide between Spanish universities as a university in Barcelona was named host to Europe's most powerful computer. The supercomputer, to be known as Mare...