Compromise after Conflict gives peace a chance
Academic project aims for truth and reconciliation after the bloodshed
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Essay mills: university course work to order
David Matthews investigates the scale and threat of the custom essay industry
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Euro rivals adopt English in fight for overseas students
Offerings of master’s courses in English tempt students away from UK, study suggests
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Inside Out Festival 2013 turns academics loose
Celebrating the nobility of failure
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Want to learn? Let me walk you through it
Douglas Anderson on the results of his active approach to pedagogy
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Russell Group backs Oxford v-c on fee cap
The Russell Group has backed the University of Oxford vice-chancellor after he urged the government to allow a rise in tuition fees.
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Google signs agreement with Jisc
Internet giant Google has signed an agreement with Jisc, the higher education technology consortium.
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Computer modelling scientists win chemistry Nobel
Three scientists have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for laying the foundations for the computer modelling of chemical processes.
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Commission report calls for private sector regulation
Private providers, including universities’ own offshoots, have been pinpointed as a major risk to English higher education in a new report.
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Oxford v-c says fees should better reflect its ‘16K costs’
The real cost of a University of Oxford education is £16,000 a year and the fees system should be better related to such an amount.
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Higgs and Englert win Nobel Prize
Scientists who developed a theory describing the origin of mass have won the 2013 Nobel Prize for physics.
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Overseas student growth ‘not as high as government hopes’
The number of international students coming to UK universities will grow at a slower rate over the next 13 years than is hoped for by the government.
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OECD report on skills marks down UK
The UK scores poorly in a major study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on adult literacy, numeracy and other key skills.
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Liam Byrne becomes shadow HE minister
Liam Byrne has been made shadow higher education minister in a reshuffle unveiled today by Labour leader Ed Miliband.
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Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine won by cell scientists
Three scientists who elucidated a fundamental process in cell physiology have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.