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A necessary intervention - How to revive UK life sciences
Forty university chaplains have signed a letter criticising the coalition government’s White Paper for seeing higher education in “highly individual” terms.
Two unions are set for strike action at Middlesex University over job cuts that some claim could reduce the workforce by 15 per cent.

The vice-chancellor of the University of London has announced he is stepping down just one year into the post.
The University of Dundee is to introduce three year degrees to appeal to debt-shy undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Labour’s plan to cap tuition fees at £6,000 would be of greatest benefit to graduates in their 50s earning £72,500 a year, according to an analysis.

By Libby A. Nelson, for Inside Higher Ed

The Labour Party would reduce the annual tuition fee cap to £6,000 if it were in power, Ed Miliband has said, in an apparent move away from favouring a graduate tax.
Three European funding agencies have signed an open access funding agreement with journal publisher Wiley-Blackwell.
Six leading scientific bodies, including the Royal Society, have urged the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to reconsider its controversial “shaping capability” measures.
Poetry contest reminds trainee medics that patients are people, not machines. Matthew Reisz reports
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The University of Buckingham flies the UK flag in Uganda. David Matthews reports from Kampala

Debate has been further inflamed by claims that Turkey has paid off historians. Jack Grove reports