BPP undercuts universities on fees
The UK鈥檚 only for-profit provider with degree-awarding powers has undercut almost all English universities with its tuition fees for 2012-13 by planning to charge undergraduates between 拢12,000 and 拢...
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Edinburgh鈥檚 'rest-of-UK' fees head north to 拢36,000
The University of Edinburgh has announced it will charge undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to 拢36,000 for a degree.
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Inside Higher Ed: Relationship problems
By Kevin Kiley, for Inside Higher Ed
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World University Rankings 2011-12 methodology revealed
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings is today unveiled by 糖心Vlog, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday 6 October 2011.
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Efforts to secure student feedback 'missing the mark'
Attempts by universities to seek out and respond to student feedback are often inadequate or poorly executed, a new study suggests.
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Teachers urged to challenge academics for role as public intellectuals
Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country鈥檚 new 鈥渋ntellectual guardians鈥, the head of Britain鈥檚 teacher training body has said.
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King鈥檚 chemistry department rises again
King鈥檚 College London has re-opened its chemistry department eight years after concluding that it was unsustainable.
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The returns from a degree: Hesa stats reveal winners and losers
Graduates who left university in 2007 are more likely to be unemployed than those who graduated earlier in the decade, new figures reveal.
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Education expert warns of threat to 'care home students'
Changes to the university funding regime will bring an 鈥渁brupt halt鈥 to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate the Universe and the Modern World
All becomes clear in an admirable account of the hunt for the Higgs Boson, writes Athene Donald
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Mechanism, Experiment, Disease: Marcello Malpighi and Seventeenth-Century Anatomy
William Poole examines a pioneering anatomist's explorations that advanced medical knowledge
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Why Do We Quote? The Culture and History of Quotation
In the days following the death of Osama bin Laden, a quote attributed to Martin Luther King pinged about social networking websites and into email inboxes: "I mourn the loss of thousands of precious...
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Open access will levy uneven tolls on institutions, study contends
Scholars say 'gold' model will cost research elites dear while others hitch a ride. Andy Wright reports
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How to end bad reviews, for good
Matthew Reisz follows the trail of a fictional scholar鈥檚 deadly solution to negative criticism
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Mirror on the bathroom and Hackney on a plate
Geographers look at queer lavatories, GPS, urban food production and humour, writes Matthew Reisz