Finger points to Bath copycats
A student was rewarded with a distinction for plagiarised work, quality chiefs have revealed in a damning inspection report of City of Bath College, writes Phil Baty. The revelation of the lax...
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Birmingham's fee bonus
Birmingham University is set to award eligible students up to £9,300 each in a new scholarship scheme to combat tuition-fee fears. The university will invest £14.8 million of its tuition fee income...
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Watchdog reissues warning for Wales
Education watchdogs have severely criticised the way the University of Wales safeguards its degree standards - reiterating concerns raised by an audit report more than a decade ago. The Quality...
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First-years break 1m mark
The number of students on the first year of a university course in the UK broke the 1 million mark for the first time last year, according to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The number of...
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Is the core collapsing?
Times Higher reporters look at pressures on courses in basic subjects worldwide A flurry of threatened undergraduate course closures in the UK rang alarm bells in the Department for Education and...
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The states keep Europe steady
Times Higher reporters look at pressures on courses in basic subjects worldwide Closures of core undergraduate programmes are rare in continental Europe. Close links between universities and the...
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Minister has his say Down Under
Times Higher reporters look at pressures on courses in basic subjects worldwide Six years ago, ߣߣÊÓƵ's largest university, Monash, faced a A$40 million (£16 million) shortfall as a result of...
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Liberty gives US 'hollow' feeling
Times Higher reporters look at pressures on courses in basic subjects worldwide The core curriculum of US universities has been called a "hollow" one and has become an ideological lightning rod on...
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Afghans still stumble over language barrier
Kabul University remains underfunded three years after the fall of the Taleban, with academic standards below international norms and students attending lectures in subzero temperatures because of...
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Retrieved looted books put in bomb-proof vault
Stockholm University Library has locked away five rare books in a bomb-proof vault after they were recovered from a thief who died when his apartment blew up. The five scientific texts from the 16th...
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EU commissioner's £9.5bn aim
Jan Figel, the new European education commissioner, faces his first test after failing to secure agreement on a near-300 per cent rise in the European Union education budget at a summit. He said: "We...
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Stench of rotten fruit fills groves of academe
An apparent rise in corruption around the world is undermining all of higher education, says Philip Altbach. The deputy prime minister of Russia recently estimated that between $2 billion (£1.06...
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Alison Wolf
Why are we so reluctant to make a nuisance of ourselves over nonsensical policy? It boils down to the politics of size. We all know about special-interest groups. They are selfish, underhand affairs...
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Divine intervention
The Association of University Teachers has come under fire for hiring left-wing media commentator Polly Toynbee as a star columnist in its members' magazine, AUTLook . The issue after her inaugural...
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An offal coincidence?
Who says higher education has become a cynical commercial operation, churning out students as if from a sausage machine? Not just Laurie Taylor, it seems. Staff at Nottingham Trent University have...