Tension over plan for Scots merger
Scotland's further and higher education organisations radically disagree over the powers of a planned merged funding council for the two sectors. And key tensions have emerged over the possible...
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Lay off, says Luton, as it plays to strengths
Charles Clarke described Luton University as 'bloody brilliant' yet it gets a bloody awful press. Alan Thomson finds that the much-maligned university is carving out a niche for itself Luton...
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Research elite held to ransom
Israel's seven research universities face 30 per cent budget cuts unless they implement government-inspired changes to their governance that some fear will erode academic freedom. The changes were...
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Croatia calls for Stirling aid
A Stirling University academic has been offered the post of special adviser to the Croatian prime minister to help forge the country's path to joining the European Union. Dejan Jovic, who has taught...
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EUA to look at UK's top-up model
European university leaders are to carry out a detailed appraisal of university funding in the wake of the decision in the UK to charge tuition fees far in excess of anything in continental Europe....
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Chinese block rights website
Chinese authorities have blocked access to the website of a Canadian foundation that funds human rights and social justice studies. The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, named after the late...
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New minister appeases strikers
Fran?ois Fillon, France's new minister of education and research, is giving priority to defusing the research crisis dogging the government. Less than 48 hours after the government reshuffle that...
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US fees hike poses threat to access
Tuition fee costs at US universities will rise once again at double the rate of inflation this year, nearing $40,000 (?21,000) at some elite schools, including Harvard University. The tuition-fee...
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Titles lost in Nazi Vienna restored
Thirty-two Vienna University academics stripped of their titles by the Nazis have officially received posthumous recognition of their achievements more than 60 years later. The 32 are among more than...
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Seats of learning that deserve high standing
Higher education colleges' strengths add value to the university brand, say Dianne Willcocks and John Cater. The government proposes that the arrangements for the award of university title should be...
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Alison Wolf column
As the regions hone their business strategies for global domination, the needs of small, local firms are being overlooked. I wish someone could find me some quangos that have disappeared. Not ones...
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Reunited: 'the smell of chicken dissection is the same'
Tim Haines studied zoology at Bangor from 1978-81. He has worked on BBC programmes and produced Walking with Dinosaurs. I always imagined it was one of those midlife crisis things - buying a sports...
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Free student with every reply
The following plea arrived in The Diary's in-tray last week. It reads: "I am Charles and need your help in managing a large inheritance that I have just managed to squeeze through. I have at present...
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Travelling light, travelling free
More than a dozen students from Aberdeen University have staged a "jailbreak" to see how far they could get from the city in 36 hours without spending any money on transport, as part of a charity...
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Royal 'lag' wanted by the law
The Princess Royal is said to be poised to accept an honorary degree in law from Saskatchewan University in Canada - to the amusement of her staff. One of them was quoted in The Daily Mirror as...