Heard the one about Blair?
It's not often that you see two heavyweights from the same political party disagree on just about everything. But that is what happened when Labour peers Baroness Kennedy and Lord Giddens took the...
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Cheap travel and free laptops
Alison Goddard navigates the baffling assortment of incentives on offer to entice students The most comprehensive picture yet of the financial support available to students when top-up fees are...
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Welsh institutions may need a top-up
Welsh universities could be paid as little as £586 per student by the Assembly Government in compensation for not introducing top-up fees of up to £3,000-a-head next year. Documents supplied by the...
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Struggle to balance the pension books
"I bet when MPs debated top-up fees last winter they never imagined that so much would be going on staff pension funds," said Richard Allanach, finance director of the University of East London....
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Fashion statement
Second-year students at Heriot-Watt University's School of Textiles and Design have designed a range of clothing to help support a home and school for orphaned children in India. The cotton clothes...
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Is yours a great campus?
The verdict of thousands of students will settle which university wins the coveted title of Best Student Experience in the 2005 Times Higher Awards, writes Paul Hill. Of the 14 awards, the Best...
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Job threat at Brunel
The Association of University Teachers has threatened to take legal action against Brunel University if it tries to make some long-serving members of staff redundant. The union and the university are...
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Our mission: to boldly go (again)
As 1,000 students watched footage of the ill-fated Beagle 2 expedition, the message was in the soundtrack. The Glasgow auditorium filled with the sound of Gerry Rafferty's hit song Get it Right Next...
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A white knight with means to find holy grail
David Norwood, a 36-year-old chess grandmaster, made the best move of his life when he ditched the day job and decided to make his fortune exploiting academic intellectual property. This may not...
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Blair calls on the West to pledge $8bn to Africa
Tony Blair's Commission for Africa has delivered a multibillion-dollar bill to the industrialised nations to help revitalise Africa's universities. This aspect of the commission report on...
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'Guinea pigs' must gain from research, Wellcome says
Scientific research carried out in the developing world must provide lasting health benefits to host countries, according to guidance issued by the Wellcome Trust this week, writes Caroline Davis....
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Scots get above-inflation rise
The UHI Millennium Institute, which hopes to become a university in 2007, has topped this year's Scottish funding allocations for higher education with a cash increase of 5 per cent. This is the...
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Tomlinson reforms are 'still to play for'
The Tomlinson reforms to integrate vocational and academic school qualifications could be resurrected after the general election, according to the chair of the influential House of Commons Education...
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Business cashes in on SAT relaunch
A major revamp of the pre-eminent US university admission exam is not only fuelling students' anxiety but creating a lucrative industry that markets everything from test-preparation CDs to software...
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China caps fee in nod to roots
The Beijing Municipal Government has capped tuition fees in the capital to ensure that higher education remains accessible to poor students, writes Michael Delaney in Beijing. Most of the capital's...