For ever in their debt (1 of 2)
Replacing direct grants to universities with tuition fees backed by loans cuts the government's annual deficit. Borrowing to award grants to universities is counted as public borrowing, but doing so...
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For ever in their debt (2 of 2)
I am still trying to understand the implications of the student loans scheme for part-time and distance students in England. According to the DirectGov website's advice to such students: "You don't...
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Pork lightning strikes once
Ken Smith bemoans the fact that the University of Poppleton does not appear in the Index at the back of ߣߣÊÓƵ ('You're making this up", Letters, 6 September). He may be reassured...
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Limitations of knowledge
Your review of Backsliding: Understanding Weakness of Will ("Just one more wafer-thin mint?", Books, 16 August) should have recast the problem as one of epistemology.How can Jack, struggling in the...
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Snouts in the trough
Christopher Belshaw's call for "dispassionate, rational, evidence-based hard thinking" about animals and the natural world reminds me of calls to deal with the financial crisis with more deregulation...
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Ruth Etchells, 1931-2012
Ruth Etchells was born in London on April 1931 and adopted, at the age of 2, by a Congregationalist minister and his wife, who took her to live in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. She was educated at...
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Campus round-up
Trinity Laban ConservatoirePride and joyTwo original musical pieces written by an academic took centre stage at the Paralympics opening ceremony. Errollyn Wallen, who teaches composition at Trinity...
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English tuition-fee regime gets thumbs up on mobility
‘Most advanced’ student-support structure in developed world, says OECD. John Morgan reports
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Remains found in search for English king
University archaeologists searching for the resting place of Richard III are grabbing the news headlines after finding human remains.
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No-holds Bard in digital initiative
A major new resource devoted to the writings of "Shakespeare and his immediate contemporaries, antecedents and successors" has been launched by Oxford University Press.
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New verification system uncovers dozens of bogus universities
A degree verification system has uncovered more than 130 bogus UK universities in just three months.
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Which? launches university comparison website
Consumer champion Which? has launched its university comparison website for students.
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Private cash nudges OECD figures up for UK
Higher education investment in the UK as a share of national wealth has increased, but remains lower than that of other developed nations, an annual study has found.
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V-c takes to YouTube in search of heroes
A vice-chancellor has accepted a most unlikely challenge in a bid to raise money for two local charities.