UKBA clarifies universities’ responsibilities
Institutions need not subject international students to biometric attendance monitoring, agency reveals
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London Met to reapply for licence to recruit
But it continues with court case seeking to overturn home secretary’s decision to revoke Highly Trusted Sponsor status last year
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Qatar strives to weave its Western branches into one
Emirate’s flagship aims to integrate partners in postgraduate programmes as part of ‘2030’ plan
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Critical comeback
Having been away of late, I am only now able to respond to Simon Blackburn’s review of my book Imagining the University (“Creative steps to po-po-mo heaven”, 31 January).First, the role of any...
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Evidence urges policy change for UKBA
I agree with your conclusions about Prime Minister David Cameron’s potentiallyencouraging statement in India on student visas (“Talk of fair play is not enough”, Leader, 21 February). While it is...
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Grade-point mileage
Regarding “Classification reform will display your ‘Tutu’ and your average number” (News, 21 February). We were interested to note that Oxford Brookes University is to publish a grade-point average...
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Learn while they earn
The Sutton Trust’s recent report on the “postgraduate premium” shows that postgraduate education is the new frontier of widening participation (“Postgraduate premium’ fuels vicious cycle of social...
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First things first
Alan Ryan is quite right in advocating an emphasis on primary education (“Build from the ground up”, Opinion, 14 February). When the old Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals first supported...
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Pulp faction
As a long-established educational developer without an institutional subscription or a local university library, I am a strong supporter of open access (“Fools’ gold”, 14 February). However, in an...
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Funding councils begin open-access consultation
They say ‘lessons have been learned’ after Research Councils UK is condemned for lack of dialogue
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Rotten to the core? Far from it
Bad apples who cheat may at times beat the system, but their misdeeds should not taint the honest and ethical majority
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Brick nations’ strengths are unevenly distributed, says report
Research gains in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea are not necessarily in their strongest suits, finds Thomson Reuters
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University of Buckingham medical degree to cost more than Harvard’s
Private university’s new course awaits General Medical Council approval as critics decry projected £144,000 price
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Are you looking for trouble?
“A wonderful opportunity.” That was how Louise Bimpson, corporate director of our ever-expanding Human ߣߣƵ team, reacted to news that The Hub Events training organisation (motto “Fresh Ideas,...
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28 February 2013
Rotters, not rotten - How does a discipline survive a series of scandals?