Trac burden cut after Hefce review
Universities are to benefit from a reduced administrative burden in supplying information about their costs, but government pressure to give more of such data to students has met with a cool response.
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Manchester wins record fourth University Challenge title
The University of Manchester has equalled the record for University Challenge wins after beating University College London in last night’s final
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Euro Mooc opens up for business
The first pan-European massive open online course initiative has been launched by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.
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Inside Higher Ed: ‘Advantage’ for Chinese Applicants?
Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed
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Birkbeck tributes to "jazzy, snazzy, complete historian" Hobsbawm
A celebration of the life and influence of legendary historian Eric Hobsbawm, who died last October at the age of 95, brought out family, friends and fellow scholars in force at Birkbeck, University...
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Postgraduate diversity "not good enough", figures show
Fewer than ten graduates each from Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi minority groups make the transition to a research degree each academic year, a study has found.
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THE podcast: 25 April 2013 issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanThe trials of a PhD viva, the UK’s slow move towards a grade-point average degree clasification system, and university mergers all feature on this ߣߣƵ...
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The week in higher education - 25 April 2013
Lecturers often moan that student radicals have disappeared, but a few could be found at Maggie’s Good Riddance Party, a protest organised by Dominic Francis, a student at Ruskin College in Oxford,...
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Hefce plans new funding contract
Existing legislation fails to cover Student Loans Company cash
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Athena SWAN applications soar
Numbers treble after change in funding requirements
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Wales needs Oxbridge boost, says MP
New ‘ambassador’ aims to improve access to elite institutions
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Anti-austerity? Come join the resistance
We are a group of people working in higher education who are increasingly alarmed by the government’s austerity programme and are increasingly determined to campaign against it.The coalition has...
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Geography and economics
In setting the scene for his analysis (“Beware! Hazards ahead”, 18 April), Sir Steve Smith refers to universities as “anchor institutions in local economies” and to “the old adage that there is only...
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On so many levels
Mary Curnock Cook is right to point out the significance of Level 3 for higher education (“Applying changes”, Opinion, 18 April). She is also correct when she says that “it is difficult to find an...
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Satisfied customers
Readers of “Posh spice up CVs to gain edge at post-92s” (News, 11 April), which covered the status anxiety of some upper-middle-class students over not getting into Russell Group universities, might...