UUK forces minister to give ground on access
Vice-chancellors have won the first round in a continuing battle to narrow the scope of the Office for Fair Access. Universities UK has been in extensive negotiations with ministers to define the...
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CMI teething troubles 'over'
Chancellor Gordon Brown committed ?65 million to a partnership involving Cambridge University without allowing for competing bids from other universities and with no proper risk assessment, targets...
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Face up to ancient'v' word
It may have been the birthplace of democracy, but it seems that ancient Greece was a veiled society for women. Research by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, lecturer in classics and ancient history at Exeter...
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Whistleblowers: BA pre-empts probe into prize
The country's most prestigious arts academy was accused of "playing fast and loose" this week, as it appeared to pre-empt an investigation by the public spending watchdog into its handling of a...
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QAA targets PhD 'cronyism'
Claire Sanders looks at the potential impact of a new code of practice for research students, while two QAA committee members who are shaping the guidelines give their insights .Universities will...
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Fashion, politics, science - all at your fingertips
This image is among 40,000 from world-famous photo archives, available to teachers in further and higher education through a deal with the Joint Information Systems Committee. Jisc's Education Image...
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Cambridge: 1 in 5 state pupils fails to meet offer
One in five state-school students failed to achieve their conditional offer last summer, Cambridge University said this week. The failure rate partly explains why Cambridge was unable to turn a 1 per...
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'We had a name with one dead county in it'
How do you reverse the fortunes of a university in free fall and make a name for it in a crowded field? Lincoln's vice-chancellor gave Jim Kelly a few tips. The emerging market in higher education...
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EU research post goes east
The director-general of the European Union's Joint Research Centre will lose his job this year, a victim of the need to offer high-level European Commission posts to representatives of the (mostly)...
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Ex-Irish premier converts to tuition fees cause
Garret Fitzgerald, the former Irish premier, has reversed his longstanding opposition to the return of university tuition fees, which were abolished in the mid-1990s by a coalition government...
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US illegals find access denied
Illegal immigrants living in the US face new barriers to higher education after a federal judge ruled that they may be denied admission to universities. The case was brought in Virginia by two...
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Labor vow to axe top-ups
Australia's Labor opposition has warned universities that it will ban top-up fees and full-fee places for Australian students if it wins this year's federal elections. Under last December's changes...
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Harsh rules will 'drive new medics away'
South African opposition MPs say government policies are driving medical graduates overseas and that new legislation will speed up their flight. The Democratic Alliance has called on the government...
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Teacher brain drain threat
Efforts to attain the Department for International Education's Millennium Goal of universal primary education by 2015 may be threatened by the international flow of trained teachers. While there is a...
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Hackles up in New Zealand over affirmative action
Helen Clark, New Zealand's prime minister, has promised a review of academic programmes aimed at ethnic groups after an opposition attack on university admission procedures that favour Maori students...