China 'offering global elite scholarships to boost soft power'
China, fostering links with future leaders through its universities, is now playing the same game as Western nations, researcher says
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Bring medical research back to the ‘bedside’, Oxford scientists urge
A focus on basic cell biology and statistical population health studies means that understanding how living systems operate has been neglected, they claim
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THE MENA Summit: For-profit university chains ‘best placed to meet global demand’
Lord Willetts tells event it is hard to see how governments can fund expansion on necessary scale
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Cambridge to bring in new entrance exams following demise of AS levels
Fears that the changes could favour applicants from wealthy backgrounds who can afford to be coached
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Free university tuition ‘could lead to poor subsidising the rich’
Disadvantaged are under-represented in degree study because they are ‘simply not smart enough’, says researcher
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Asian HE expansion 'producing more graduates than market needs'
Hong Kong scholar says students are embarking on postgraduate degrees to 'delay' unemploymentÂ
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Cambridge is not the villain, Mr Cameron
The prime minister's suggestion that top universities are at fault for their low admission of BME students is not borne out by the evidence, says Athene Donald
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Five things student leaders can teach us about university management
A few months ago, in one of my regular meetings with the president of our students’ union, we explored his options for life after his sabbatical position. In the course of our discussion, it emerged...
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King’s, Arizona State and New South Wales team up for global alliance
The three institutions aim to tackle sustainability and educational attainment in new partnership
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Student uses education as weapon in fight against Islamic State
A Glasgow student has returned to his native city of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan inspired to embrace the ideals of a ‘learning city’
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Industry-backed PhD students ‘not staying in private sector’
Chief scientist at UK arm of French electronics giant Thales says big business is frustrated at retention rates for such students
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UUK board rejects HEA price hike
Vice-chancellors call for price freeze from sector's teaching champion
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University of California: campus monitoring concerns raised
New system that has ability to monitor emails and use of computer networks on campus raises eyebrows
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Admissions race row: which groups are best represented at Oxford?
White students are over-represented compared with young UK population, but there is huge variation for other groups