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Tirana Tal Gashi, 21, was in his third year studying electro-engineering, computing and telecommunications at Pristina University when war broke out in Kosovo. He had just been accepted to complete...
Tirana Tal Gashi, 21, was in his third year studying electro-engineering, computing and telecommunications at Pristina University when war broke out in Kosovo. He had just been accepted to complete...
Durban Radical action is afoot to try to rescue a South African university that produced many black leaders in the struggle against apartheid. Financial disaster and closure of the University of Fort...
Graduate earnings seem to be improving so that more graduates are paying off their student loan debts. The Student Loans Company said that the proportion deferring their loan repayments fell from 48...
The government has restored full access to disabled student allowances for the over 50s after an earlier decision to limit eligibility angered disability groups. Education minister Baroness...
Universities and colleges with gripes against the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England now have a new way to settle them. HEFCE has established a procedure that sets out how institutions can...
Universities and colleges have welcomed proposals for a higher education reach out to business and the community fund, following a consultation by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England....
The need to further increase stipends for PhDs students was expected to be discussed at a joint meeting of the heads of the research councils this week. Also likely to be discussed were changes to...
This week's sale of the technology behind Dolly, the first cloned sheep, to an American biotech company should bring more than Pounds 20 million to the institute where she was born, it is estimated....
Further education student numbers increased by 2 per cent last year, the Further Education Funding Council said. According to colleges' student data, 2.4 million students were enrolled at colleges in...
Bailiffs were this week to forcibly eject students from offices at Sussex University that they occupied in a protest against tuition fees. About 150 students stormed Sussex House last Tuesday in...
A former St Andrews University student, who says she was gang-raped while on an exchange course in Ukraine in 1996, is expected to raise an action against the university by the end of this month....
Aberdeen University has avoided a public airing of its dirty linen by revoking a proposal to axe the linen service to certain halls of residence. Students had this week threatened to send up to 1,000...
The number of home students starting a postgraduate course is up by 4.8 per cent this year, mainly at the masters level. 糖心Vlog Funding Council figures show the number of students enrolled...
The sky could be the limit for top academics under "explosive" pay recommendations by the Bett committee. Sources close to the independent review of higher education, chaired by Sir Michael Bett,...
University members of public service union Unison voted this week to plan for industrial action, including all-out indefinite strikes, if pay demands were not met. But delegates to the union's higher...