In the news: Lord Sutherland
The challenges to government this week included an unexpected broadside from the royal commission on long-term care of the elderly, which condemned the failure to introduce free personal care across...
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Appointments
* The Centre for Economic Performance has appointed: John Van Reenan , professor of economics at University College London, as its director; and Stephen Machin , professor of economics at the London...
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Clarke airs fears about fees impact
The government is holding urgent talks with universities about student support, amid fears that its top-up fees policy could deter the poorest from higher education. Education secretary Charles...
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Opinion split over debts
A clampdown on student debt was advocated by financial consultants this week, while by contrast the higher education minister was urging leniency, writes Alison Goddard. Some £120 million...
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Labour students try to stay loyal
Labour students are uneasy over plans for higher education top-up fees, torn between support for their government and fear that higher charges will deter students from poorer backgrounds, writes Alan...
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Ministers 'outspun' on top-ups
Ministers have been comprehensively "outspun" in the debate on top-up fees, according to a report published this week. The study by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Policy Institute examins the tuition fee...
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NI projects win £50m
Northern Ireland's two universities have won £50 million research funding for seven groundbreaking projects through the public-private Support Programme for University Research. Queen's University,...
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Warwick postgrad fee
Warwick University is to charge an application fee for postgraduates to stop time-consuming speculative applications. Applicants will be charged £20 for an online application and £...
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Star quality for Oxford
Actor Clint Eastwood is to address the Oxford Union. He will be interviewed by film critic Barry Norman when he appears at the debating society on October 9. Other speakers this term will include...
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Protests fail to save East Asian studies
The atmosphere was sombre this week at Durham University's department of East Asian studies. Despite very public protestations from former cabinet ministers, senior diplomats, eminent academics and...
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Welsh merger partners row over name
Plans to create the biggest university in Wales by merging the University of Glamorgan and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff have run into problems. Disputes over a name for the new...
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Protests at cash transfer to DoH
English medical school heads this week attacked proposals to transfer their teaching funding from the Department for Education and Skills to the Department of Health. Education secretary Charles...
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Research plans will ruin links, warns CBI
Employer-friendly initiatives fail to win over business sector, The THES reports The Confederation of British Industry has launched a stinging attack on government plans for reforming university...
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Call for cash boost to drive knowledge-transfer activity
Employer-friendly initiatives fail to win over business sector, The THES reports The government is not doing enough to facilitate knowledge transfer despite encouraging universities to get more...