Surgical strike on Polish places
Places to study medicine are so scarce in Sweden that hundreds of students are paying 500,000 Swedish kronor (£36,000) to train to be a doctor in Poland instead. Both the Swedish National Board of...
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Asians sign up for British quality
Education excellence is the key reason for going overseas, according to students who attend foreign universities. Geoff Maslen reports. Asian students who go overseas to study believe that...
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Researchers fear market's effect
Academics in North America fear that stricter copyright laws and practices are compromising the tradition of building on shared research. Corporations and governments are seen by many as supporting a...
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Academics turn to web to escape copyright curbs
A growing number of academics worldwide, disenchanted by increasingly restrictive copyright practices, are turning to websites that give wide access to their work and offer it to users for free,...
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FBI spied on foreign applicants for loans
Investigative journalism graduate students have exposed a secret American government policy of reviewing the records of applicants for university financial aid to see if any are using the money to...
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We'll work together to keep jewel sparkling
Alan Johnson is determined to see that UK higher education remains a diverse and competitive sector. It is almost six months since I returned to the Department for Education and Skills as Secretary...
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Ruth Scurr
Admissions tutors and officers nationwide are now carefully considering piles of files from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. Some of those piles are noticeably smaller today than...
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No all-American dream
BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN. Cinemas nationwide. The dinner-party hostess in Birmingham, Alabama, proudly tells her guests: "The cultural...
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Snaps blow up in Amy's face
Photos on the social networking website Facebook are meant to embarrass students - not their professors. But the cheeks of the president of the University of Pennsylvania, Amy Gutmann, have been a...
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Painful recall of brief encounter
Andrew Cubie, whose report led to the abolition of tuition fees in Scotland, was having uncomfortable flashbacks last week. He told NUS Scotland's annual reception in Edinburgh City Chambers how he...
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Try a little cosmetic surgery
How do you stop your local hospital closing? Add the word "university" to its name, say academics in a chat room for specialists in accident and emergency medicine. One posting reads: "Just about...
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Blame it on the fall guy
Peep stumbled over a surprisingly interesting paragraph in the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association health and safety report. It claims that the number of slips, trips and falls in higher...
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One small child and a mother of a row
As argument rages over the rights and wrongs of Madonna's Malawi adoption, Pat Caplan searches beyond the headlines for a little more cultural understanding. The British press has had a feeding...
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Leave those in the know to manage the show
The US experience suggests that ceding control of universities to boards of outsiders is a mistake, writes Brian Leftow. A short while ago, I asked a number of US academics if they could tell me...
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A true measure of displeasure
Politicians' obsession with statistics and tables reveals little and delivers less, argues Susan Bassnett Not a week goes by without me being sent another set of "meaningful" figures. I am fed up...