Student debt rise slows
The average student debt has risen by 4 per cent to £6,228, figures from Barclays reveal. The bank said its annual survey of more than 1,400 students recorded the lowest increase since the survey...
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Treasury's review to raise scientists' pay
An anticipated £1.5 billion boost for science in this Monday's Treasury spending review is expected to provide significantly more money for researchers' salaries and PhD stipends. But there is still...
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Whistleblowers: Exeter rebuked over ill-treated PhD student
The Lord Chancellor has rebuked the University of Exeter for a series of serious failings in its treatment of a PhD student. In ruling on a postgraduate's complaint on behalf of the Queen, who is...
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Analysis: Snip fees for lower degrees?
The introduction of top-up fees would be a gamble but would it pay off? Claire Sanders looks at models for differential fees. A decision to introduce top-up fees in the next parliament would be a...
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For whom the Bell tolls?
Allegations of research fraud have scandalised physics. Steve Farrar reports. The machine sitting in Jan Hendrik Schön's old laboratory at the University of Konstanz in Germany did not appear out of...
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Education studies in crisis over credibility
The government's obsession with monitoring performance in schools, colleges and universities is marginalising educational studies and destroying the discipline's credibility, according to Jon Nixon,...
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Post-16 reform hits new hurdle
Weak local management in the 47 learning and skills councils poses a threat to the government's plans to reform the post-16 sector, according to a survey of college heads published this week. A...
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Languages come under threat as demand falls
At least 15 university language departments are under threat of closure or merger as fewer students opt for pure language degrees, the subject centre for languages, linguistics and areas studies has...
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Top journals tarnished in fallout from alleged physics fraud
The role of academic journals Nature and Science in an alleged research fraud scandal at Bell Labs in the US has been criticised by scientists. Suspicions surrounding ground-breaking work in...
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Study deal to take sting out of fees hike
Cut-price charges for foundation degrees are being considered to sweeten the pill of introducing differential fees and to help universities meet the government's expansion targets. The two-year...
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Students may be moved as cuts bite
* Birmingham University has told postgraduate students that they may have to move to another institution as it sheds staff in cuts to save over £5 million. Up to 16 academic posts may go as part of...
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Cambridge scientist lands presidency
Sir Keith Peters will be the next president of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Sir Keith is regius professor of physic at the University of Cambridge and head of the School of Clinical Medicine. He...
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Arts and humanities 'need more investment'
The arts and humanities are suffering from worse underinvestment than the sciences, according to a report commissioned by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, Universities UK and the...
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Humanities firsts not getting research grants
The Arts and Humanities Research Board has predicted a decline in success rates among applicants for postgraduate research grants after recording a 20 per cent increase in applications this year. The...
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Job-cutting committee illegal, say lawyers
Lawyers working for the Association of University Teachers in Salford University have asked for the work of a newly formed redundancy committee to be stopped on the grounds that it is "improperly...