Charity status may be traded for legal gains
Institutions weigh potential bottom-line benefits of becoming limited companies, reports Melanie Newman. Higher education institutions are increasingly seeking advice on becoming companies in order...
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V-cs attack tax-cut lobby's 'Mickey Mouse' criticisms
Vice-chancellors have hit back at a report that claims that universities are offering "non-courses" that waste millions of pounds of taxpayers' money. The TaxPayers' Alliance study lists what it...
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TURBULENT TEENS How have the post-92 'new' universities fared in the 15 years since their creation? PLUS End Times in Babylon: John Gray on the fundamentalists driving the conflict in Iraq: deeply...
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Happy matches make for calmer clearing
More efficient application processes and progression accords have yielded promising results, Rebecca Attwood and Tariq Tahir report Students are being much better matched to degree courses and are...
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Call to guard standards against fee grab
Universities must stop dropping standards solely to bring in the fees of international graduate students, the new general secretary of the National Postgraduate Committee has urged. Duncan Connors,...
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University law schools miss out on £15m City contract
Nottingham Trent University's ambitions for a London law school have suffered a setback after it failed to secure a £15 million contract to train City lawyers, writes Melanie Newman. Plans by the...
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QAA report refuted
Heads of the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester have hit back at quality watchdogs over an audit that questions the college's ability to expand courses run in collaboration with partner...
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Crichton grows
A four-year plan to develop the Crichton University campus, jointly run by Glasgow and Paisley universities and Bell College, has been unveiled by the Scottish Funding Council. A "joint strategy"...
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Welsh surplus shrinks
The operating surplus of Welsh higher education institutions has dropped by over £250,000 in a year, latest funding council figures show. Cardiff University accounted for 61 per cent of the sector's...
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Enterprise setback
The Government's decision to dismantle the Training and Enterprise Council network has "significantly set back" levels of entrepreneurship and enterprise across the UK, researchers at Sheffield...
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Football fans targeted
An advert promoting sports science courses at Greenwich University has been screened at the grounds of some of London's top football clubs. More than 200,000 fans at Arsenal, Fulham and West Ham...
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Prizes galore
A professor of accounting at Portsmouth University has won the Deloitte Wildman Medal sponsored by the American Accounting Association (AAA). Stella Fearnley collected the prize, which comes with a $...
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Bolton students' gain
Bolton University plans to invest £2.5 million in creating student social learning and students union facilities on its Deane campus. Building will begin in October. The facilities are due to open in...
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Manchester leads the cash bonanza
Ten heavyweight research establishments net 40 per cent of all grants. Academics at heavyweight research-led universities continue to dominate the quest for grants from the research councils, an...
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Out of the net closet
Gay dating websites may further marginalise members of the community by shoehorning members into "Village People cliches" - thereby reinforcing stereotypes, according to a Salford University academic...