From today's UK papers
Financial Times Top universities are urging students to take the new AS-level exams to show that they are not limited to the traditional model of three A-levels in the arts, sciences or languages....
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Haifa appoints German non-Jew chairman A German non-Jew has been appointed Haifa University's chairman of governors despite opposition from some members of the senate. Manfred Lanstein is president...
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Blair defends tuition fees Tony Blair today defended his government’s decision to introduce tuition fees and abolish means-tested maintenance grants. Speaking on Radio 4’s Election Call he said that...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times The new Learning and Skills Councils will be dominated by educationalists and other "vested interests" unless business is given more influence, business leaders have told the...
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Lib Dems push to scrap fees in Wales Welsh Liberal Democrats hope to repeat the party’s success in scrapping upfront tuition fees in Scotland by lobbying the next government to abolish them in Wales...
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Financial Times Students preparing for exams or celebrating their end are uninterested in voting. Research at Cranfield University, the University of the West of England and the Defence Evaluation...
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Man defamed by university wins $1m A former student who claimed that Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington State, had spoiled his hope of a teaching career by telling state officials...
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Enrolment ban lifted by Turkish court A Turkish court has lifted a ban on enrolments at the private Fatih University in Istanbul. It had been imposed by the higher...
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From today's UK papers
The Guardian Today's teenagers are working a gruelling 57-hour week as they juggle school with paid jobs, according to research carried out for BBC AS Guru, a new website for AS-level students. www....
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Lancaster institute to close Lancaster University’s senate has voted to discontinue the Institute for English Language Education. A spokeswoman said some of the institute’s work would be transferred...
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A demand to supply sex appeal
Economics is not cool despite its salary spin-off. Huw Dixon argues for a makeover. The British used to dominate economics: from Adam Smith and David Ricardo 200 years ago to John Maynard Keynes and...
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A theoretical blow for democracy
Terry Eagleton is Britain's left-leaning high priest of literary theory. Helen Davies talks to him Students often approach Terry Eagleton and say that they have read his book. Although he has...
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Copyright, corporates and cyber publishing
John Davies looks back on some 25 years in the world of academic publishing. "Publishers are neither philanthropists nor rogues. Nor are they usually lordly magnates or cringing beggars. As a general...
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Supertext: The textbook that changed my life
For most of the 20th century, climate was regarded as a constant boundary condition of modern society. On time scales that mattered for human decision-making, the prevailing convention was that...
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