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Have-nots scrape by on £9.50 a week
There is a yawning gap between the haves and have-nots among UK students, with 8 per cent surviving on only £9.50 a week while 10 per cent have £150 a week, The Times Higher can reveal. The Sodexho/...
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Perks on offer to lure students
Universities will compete for students through bursaries and perks rather than varying tuition charges when top-up fees are introduced, academic chiefs predicted this week. Vice-chancellors told The...
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In the news: Pam Tatlow
This week, Pam Tatlow became chief executive - and the first employee - of Campaigning for Mainstream Universities, the former Coalition of Modern Universities. The CMU member institutions are mainly...
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Appointments
Tony Blair has appointed the following to the Council for Science and Technology, an advisory body for science education, research, knowledge transfer and science communication: John Beringer ,...
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Audit models 'kill teaching'
University teaching reforms risk destroying the learning experience for students by forcing academics to adhere to a rigid and uniform lecturing style, according to a leading national teaching fellow...
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Animal rights' victims call for protection
Victims of animal-rights activism confronted MPs in Parliament this week to call for new legislation to stop the rising tide of attacks. Victims of Animal Rights Extremism (Vare), a new group of...
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Cure for malaria is tested
Pre-clinical studies of a cheap and powerful new cure for malaria are about to begin. Scientists have designed and synthesised a chemical that is easy to make and can wipe out the parasite...
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Middlesex to 'reap fees benefit before Oxbridge
New universities stand to gain most from top-up fees as older institutions sink much of the extra income they raise into bursaries and scholarships, it was claimed this week. Michael Driscoll, vice-...
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Cash incentive too low
College heads have warned that education maintenance allowances, available from September to 16-year-olds from low-income families, may not be enough to significantly reduce dropout rates. The...
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Chemistry cancelled
The University of Wales Swansea's ruling council has voted to phase out undergraduate teaching of chemistry. Student union leaders claimed that the decision last week would leave more than 50...