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Ministers set for new push over tuition fees Ministers are preparing to relaunch their controversial student top-up fees policy this autumn, after privately admitting that they have failed to...
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Newcastle spin-off worms its way into US market
British worms are wriggling their way across the Atlantic to plug a gap in the supply for fishermen and fill the coffers of a University of Newcastle spin-off company, writes Esther Ingram. Seabait...
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Speaking their language
Alison Utley listens in at Leeds in the latest in our series on university cities. When schoolteachers approached the University of Leeds last year to ask whether any linguists would be willing to...
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Cheating inquiry reopens
New South Wales' Independent Commission against Corruption is investigating an allegation by a lecturer that the University of Newcastle, near Sydney, covered up plagiarism among students based in...
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Canadian fees soar as chiefs feel pinch
The cost of a Canadian undergraduate degree continues to soar. Students starting this autumn will pay an average of C$4,025 (£1,800) in tuition fees, up 7.4 per cent from the C$3,749 the year before...
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'No red tape, no strings' for ERC
The proposed European Research Council should support curiosity-driven research and spend funds handed over by the European Union with no strings attached, a scholarly association says. In its second...
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Does an early start work?
As clearing gets under way, we look at post-qualification admission systems abroad. How do other countries deal with matching applicants to places? In the UK, universities are embroiled in the...
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New Zealand: Past efforts are given greater emphasis
New Zealand Adapting to a new standards-based system of assessment for secondary school students is the challenge for New Zealand universities' admission procedures, writes Richard Thomson. From 2004...
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Ireland: System under fire but suits small country
Ireland "Brutal but fair" is the description often given to the system used to select university students in Ireland. Applications are made in January but offers are made only after the leaving...
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US: Controversial test is due to be revamped
US Controversy over standardised university admissions examinations in the US has made them as much a test of wills as a test of student aptitude, writes Jon Marcus. On one side of the debate are...
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Germany: Tried and trusted but very complicated
Germany Post-qualification entry into universities in Germany has been the norm since the 1950s and, although the German educational system is not flawless, the process has proved successful with an...
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Mature learners are in need of flexible friends
Hefce must put its money where its mouth is when it comes to part-time students, says David Latchman It is increasingly being recognised that the government's target of 50 per cent of 18 to 30-year-...
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Next week
Community service Are universities serving their constituents? A special preview examines the issues before the Association of Commonwealth Universities' meeting in Belfast Also E university: Why has...
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Alison Wolf
...and look at porn without the benefit of a publicly funded campaign' With all the breathless excitement of a cheerleader, the government is relentlessly plugging e-learning. Why? I have just...
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Ministers to probe BA's 'old-boy bias'
The government is investigating allegations of "old-boy favouritism" at the British Academy after a storm of controversy over its £2 million centenary research award. The Department for Education and...