Labour’s shadow business secretary is “open” to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been “taken hostage by the Home Office”...
By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
The Home Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review
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Source: Rex FeaturesDownload the podcastThe 2013 Global University Summit took place in central London between the 28 and the 30 May. In this special podcast, we have exclusive interviews with Boris...
When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found
Reassure junior researchers but make senior scientists know they’re being watched, scholar argues
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Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title
Leeds Metropolitan University endured a hostile reception after revealing plans to change its name. After deciding that it has “outgrown” its Met tag, the university’s options for new names are Leeds...
Parallel sectors would overcome problems of ‘one-size-fits-all’ funding, group argues