Tories 'have got numbers wrong'
Nearly 80,000 student places would have to be slashed to cover a multimillion pound deficit under Conservative Party plans for funding higher education, according to a new economic analysis, writes...
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Industry tie no road to riches
Many UK universities are being overambitious about how much revenue they will be able to generate through business links and innovation activities, says Richard Lambert, who is running the government...
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Narrow focus key to London innovation
London needs to concentrate on just three of its 40 higher education institutions to turn around its poor innovation record, according to Sir Derek Roberts, provost and president of University...
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Students rate teamwork below presentation skills
Students are neglecting the most essential workplace skill demanded by employers - teamwork - according to a survey. Teamworking emerged as the lowest rated skill, according to a survey of more than...
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UK technology stars revealed
Details of who is paying universities for the privilege of exploiting their research and technology have emerged for the first time from an interim report by Nottingham University Business School....
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Turkish president presses for state overhaul
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has called for sweeping democratic reforms of higher education in what is seen as a direct attack on the controlling higher education authority. At ceremony to...
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V-c power struggle
Australia's vice-chancellors say the federal government's plans for higher education will reduce university autonomy, adversely affect overseas student numbers and deter poor students from enrolling...
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Call for local course design
Colleges should be given the freedom to design their own vocational qualifications as part of a radical review of the nature and purpose of further education that is needed to meet the government's...
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Colleges to apply for university title and validation powers
Some further education colleges plan to apply for taught-degree awarding powers and may bid for a university title under new rules proposed by the government, writes Tony Tysome. Large "mixed economy...
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Sewage clean-up hits birds
A greener environment with cleaner water could threaten one of the UK's greatest wildlife spectacles - the 2 million water birds that come to spend the winter on estuarine and non-estuarine coasts,...
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Teaching-research split threat to drama
Drama departments are under threat from government plans to divide higher education into a small number of elite research universities and a "large tail" of teaching institutions, the discipline's...
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You're all rejected, Ucas tells art class
A whole class of art and design students has been mistakenly told they have been turned down by their first choice of university. The error was spotted only when their course tutor at Dunstable...
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Hi-tech centre lifts fog of war
A group led by engineers at the University of Birmingham intends to do away with the "fog of war", the uncertainty and danger that have plagued the battlefield for centuries, and replace it with...
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Cut-glass is a cut above in US
The best way to get a foot in a US advertising agency's door is to speak with an English accent, while UK firms prefer humanities graduates, according to new research, writes Natasha Gilbert. Chris...
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Poland launches institute designed to promote European integration
A higher education institute designed to promote the idea of a unified Europe was officially opened last week by Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski, just before the weekend referendum in which...