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Government plans to overhaul the immigration system and drastically reduce the number of visas issued amount to a “hostile act against Britain’s universities” and contain elements that have an “ugly taste of apartheid”, a vice-chancellor has warned.
Durham University received £300,000 from the US State Department for a series of projects that the US hoped would help it gather information on Iran, it has emerged.
The government has threatened to legislate to allow it to intervene in the undergraduate tuition fee levels set by individual universities if too many rush to charge close to £9,000.
The protester who threw a fire extinguisher from the roof of Conservative Party headquarters during a tuition-fee demonstration has been jailed for 32 months.
The Scottish Highlands and Islands could soon have their own university after the UHI Millennium Institute cleared a major hurdle on its way to securing university status.
Scottish universities will have their teaching grant cut by about 10 per cent next year, following a decision to reduce funding while maintaining student numbers.
Vince Cable has claimed that the government effectively was held to ransom on tuition fees, as a group of elite universities would have “gone private” if the cap had not been raised.
An indication by David Willetts that the government is leaning towards retaining a hard cap on tuition fees has provoked a swift response from the elite research universities, which have lobbied hard for the cap to be abolished.
David Willetts has set out further details of the government’s plans for reforming the academy, announcing that proposals on the future of tuition fees will be submitted to Parliament before Christmas.
The government has been warned of the potential for disastrous consequences if it does not pause for thought before embracing Lord Browne’s proposals for reform of higher education while implementing significant cuts in today’s Comprehensive Spending Review.
There is “no evidence” that a Nigerian graduate accused of attempting to blow up a plane on Christmas Day last year was radicalised while studying at University College London, an independent review has concluded.
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institution’s finances.
England could become the most expensive country in the world in which to study at a public university in light of Lord Browne of Madingley’s review of fees and funding, the main lecturers’ union has warned.
