Higher entry tariffs to show Greenwich means 'quality'
V-c set to boost research strength and speak 'the right language' to students. Jack Grove reports
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Cool but cruel: creative industries' toxic fallout
Society needs to look beyond the images of "cool", "unconventional" creative workers and find better ways for them, and for academics, to lead "liveable lives", a speaker at the British Academy...
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IndiaHigher lab bench benchmarksA leading academic has urged India to strengthen science teaching in schools and universities to improve the country's research and attract overseas students. Baldev...
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Texas hold-up: legal challenge to affirmative action
Selecting students on the basis of race in the US could be outlawed if a Supreme Court action is successful.
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LEVERHULME TRUSTMajor Research Fellowships• Award winner: Chandak Sengoopta• Institution: Birkbeck, University of London• Value: £138,617Satyajit Ray: lives, dilemmas, reputationsPhilip Leverhulme...
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Speculation grows that Gove is making play for academy brief
Conservative education secretary is said to be pushing for oversight of higher education. Simon Baker reports
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Teacher training (and kids go free)
Simon Baker asks if a unified department would mean more institutions open free schools
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Spend Offa cash on interns, Wilson says
Report calls for sandwich courses and subsidised work experience. David Matthews writes
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BPP boss' £738K was 'exceptional'
State-backed student loans 'irrelevant' to size of leaders' pay, for-profit says. John Morgan reports
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Record windfall can't change UK postgrad tune
The University of Oxford has received a multi-million-pound gift for postgraduate humanities study aimed at the world's most promising scholars amid concern that public funding cuts could make such...
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UUK chief leaps to defence of post-1992s
Social prejudice is driving "reactionary" press attacks on post-1992 universities, the president of Universities UK has argued.
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An academic career? I'm not sure I fancy it
Vitae uncovers gap between PhD students' career aspirations and destinations. Paul Jump writes
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BIS official keen on foreign student 'flow'
Recent Home Office concessions over immigration rules have not eliminated the threat posed to the UK's research base, according to a senior official at the Department for Business, Innovation and...
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Learn lessons from underneath the Ivy League
The UK's higher education system must become "less precious" and emulate the "messier" half of the US model if it wants to succeed, a leading scholar has argued in an analysis of the policy errors...
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For a fast-track business route to Asia, go via campus
Universities offer essential access to Asian market, Dearing conference hears. Jack Grove reports