Reconfiguring the landscape
Ireland’s government expects consolidation to play a big role in creating a financially sustainable higher education system. As the sector pores over a new strategy document that will inform...
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'Eight great technologies' for investment revealed
Universities and science minister David Willetts has laid out how the government plan to spend the £600 million allocated to research in December’s Autumn Statement
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THE podcast: 24 January 2013 podcast issue review
Podcast Powered By PodbeanUcas student figures, Moocs and Ireland are all up for discussion in this week’s THE podcast issue review. News editor Simon Baker and reporters Jack Grove and Matthew Reisz...
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Sage cuts price of open-access journal
The publisher Sage has slashed the price of publishing in its flagship open-access journal to just $99 (£63) in the wake of concern about whether researchers in the humanities and social sciences...
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Lincoln, by Steven Spielberg
Cinematic treatment of the Great Emancipator offers insights into changing attitudes towards the US presidency and the parallels between its 16th and 44th incumbents
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Pay nothing, but it will cost you
Hungary’s higher education reforms are facing fierce student opposition, as Kata Ámon reports
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Sector forced to play wild variations on a recruitment theme
Ucas data demonstrate wide-ranging impact of fees and funding changes. John Morgan reports
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Student code breakers set cyber security challenge
Students at some of the UK’s leading university computer science departments are going head-to head to prove their cyber security skills by battling it out in an online code-breaking challenge.
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Grayling's college bids for free school
New College of the Humanities, the privately funded higher education institution charging fees of £18,000 a year, plans to open a free school in partnership with a private school firm.
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Bristol the big winner as Ucas reveals all on 2012-13 student numbers
The University of Bristol was one of the biggest winners in the first year of higher fees, expanding its new student cohort by 28 per cent, while London Metropolitan University saw its intake shrink...
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Overall university staff levels drop but academic numbers remain stable
Staff levels at UK higher education institutions have dropped for the second consecutive year, new figures show.
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Drop in student numbers 'could cost economy £6 billion'
A drop in student numbers of 30,000 this year could cost the country more than £6 billion over the next 40 years, according to a new report.
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The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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NSP overhauled to help neediest
Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports
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Territory of dreadful delight
Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism