Crime concerns
More than half of nearly 400 students polled claim to have been victims of crime, a survey has found. Respondents believed they had a 62 per cent chance of being mugged and assaulted; female students...
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Marketing a mystery to third of managers
Many senior university staff are ignorant of the cost and cost-effectiveness of campaigns. Tony Tysome reports Millions of pounds a year are being "misspent" or "misdirected" on marketing in...
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Branding burns Bournemouth
Bournemouth University has come under fire from students and staff for spending £120,000 on a rebranding exercise, including a new logo made up of the letters BU, writes Tony Tysome. Phil MacGregor,...
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Welsh v-cs lose review battle
Vice-chancellors in Wales say that they have been "let down" by the Quality Assurance Agency in their fight against a move to allow the Welsh equivalent of Ofsted to inspect higher education courses...
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Drop 'raiders of lost argot' act
Academics involved in global efforts to preserve thousands of dying languages have been accused of seeing themselves as "Indiana Jones"-style linguists - when many communities are not overly...
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Students to see full feedback
Access to unedited external examiners' reports on course quality will be provided after review finds that summaries are vague and often censored. Phil Baty reports Full and uncensored examiners'...
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Inside track...
Our occasional column keeps you abreast of developments in the jobs market, from tip-offs and career pointers to who's on the move in your field Global ambitions ob hunters should keep an eye on the...
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Essay firm joins copy fight
Bank of 'model' answers is opened to plagiarism detectives, writes Phil Baty Lecturers' jobs are about to get much easier with the news that Coursework.Info, the UK's biggest provider of "model"...
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Balliol head shifts to praise reforms
The battle to reform governance at Oxford University intensified this week as a college head and former critic of the reforms sent a ringing endorsement in a letter circulated to fellow heads. Andrew...
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UK holds its own against US giants
Well-funded institutions in rich nations lead the table, but Martin Ince finds a few surprises farther down the ranks Cambridge and Oxford universities and Imperial College London take three of the...
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Tuition fees on front line of election campaigns
Higher education is at the fore in the races for US Congress, reports Jon Marcus The cost of higher education has become a major issue in next month's US congressional elections, with the Democrats...
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A clever stroke unites Europe
Juliana Galan combined her passion for swimming with a project for her masters course by organising the First European Swimming Classic competition. Ms Galan is a US student undertaking a European...
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Removal of rector causes concern
The European Union has expressed concern about the suspension of the rector of the Albanian-language State University of Tetovo. Erwan Fouere, the EU's Special Representative in Skopje, said this...
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Lebanon counts war's cost
Lebanese universities have escaped the student exodus they had feared would result after the war between Israel and Hezbollah, but the conflict cost lives, financial losses and a reduction in the...
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Russia to pilot loans scheme
The Russian Government has approved a pilot scheme to provide training credits that could pave the way for a system of privately funded, state-backed student loans, writes Nick Holdsworth, in Moscow...