Oxbridge admissions statistics show four in five students are white
Well over four fifths of students admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge last year were white, statistics show.
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Humanities courses lead to career success, says Grayling ahead of private college launch
Sixty per cent of leading public figures in the UK have humanities, social science or arts degrees, a new study has found.
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UCL challenges students' union over 'no confidence' campaign against provost
University College London’s senior administrative officer has pressed its students’ union to drop a motion of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant.
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Berkeley targets middle classes with financial aid
The University of California, Berkeley has unveiled plans for a new financial aid scheme explicitly aimed at helping middle-class students with their tuition fees.
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Red tape costs FE colleges £180 million a year
Further education colleges could make “substantial” savings by cutting the costs of bureaucracy, according to the National Audit Office.
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UCL archaeology sets its sights on Qatar's fertile terrain
Attracting top scholars to the Gulf state's flagship campus is a priority, writes David Matthews in Doha
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United StatesProbationary measuresA US higher education accreditation body has placed a university on probation for a year to deal with its financial problems. The measure placed on Fisk University...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences• Award winner: Neil Spooner• Institution: University of Sheffield• Value: £86,263Neutron identification from tracks• Award winner: John Quinn•...
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Where's the ticked-off box?
If you're sick of HR's endless, dubious employee surveys, says Adrian Furnham, there's a fiendishly simple way to fight back
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Super-selection creates a monoculture that does not benefit society
Government policies that push universities to recruit only top achievers are bad for diversity and equality, warns Tessa Blackstone
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Political science
A new generation of politically savvy scientists is needed to ensure that STEM delivers the benefits the UK needs, argues Ian Gibson
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Head hunt extended after too-short shortlist
Lack of suitable outside candidates for Offa adds to uncertainty in sector. Simon Baker reports
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Apron strings, as well as shoestrings, are key to dropping out, study finds
Students' social backgrounds may be less of a factor in determining whether they drop out of university than was previously thought, a major study has concluded.
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Second thoughts on extreme tactic
Police 'uncomfortable' with 'Orwellian' strategy to root out campus militants. David Matthews writes
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Hoffmann's Nobel input 'distant' from bench work
Researcher queries extent of professor's contribution to prizewinning immunity study. Paul Jump writes