Students baffled by 'failed' fee regime
Ministers' plans to create a market in higher education have already "failed", with students, parents and teachers in a state of confusion about the new tuition fee and bursary regime, MPs were told...
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Heads enjoy 100% rise in pay over ten years
Pay for university heads has doubled over the past ten years, according to a comparison of this year's top academic earners with those from a decade ago. The average salary for the 20 highest-paid...
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Academic aid sought over terror hysteria
The UK's health services could collapse in the event of a terrorist attack as tens of thousands of "worried well" report for treatment, government advisers fear. Restricted documents leaked to The...
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Brainier - but not smarter
We humans may like to think that we have grown ever more intelligent as our brains have grown larger over the past several million years, but that is not necessarily the case, research revealed last...
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RCA places entrepreneurs in the middle of the picture
The Royal College of Art launched its innovation strategy this week, showing that commercialisation of ideas is not just for scientists, and offering a possible blueprint for other arts institutions...
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A pop - and away he goes
Hugo Glover was close to failing the first year of his design products masters course at the Royal College of Art. But a chat with a frail aunt who had a muscular disease led to a new idea for his...
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'I reach for the stars but I'm no superwoman'
When Sally Hunt was elected general secretary of the Association of University Teachers in 2002, she became the second woman to head the union since it was founded in 1919. She was also, at 37, one...
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Fillip for joint work on pay
The task of modernising pay in higher education has been given a boost with the announcement that trade unions and employers are to be funded to work in partnership, writes Claire Sanders. The Higher...
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Conan the librarian faces race challenge
When Conan Henry, a librarian at London Metropolitan University, wrote an email describing his employer as a racist "Loony-versity", he could not have predicted the chain of events it would unleash....
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NUS: deliver or lose our vote
Student leaders set out their general election stall this week with an appeal to ministers, academics and opposition parties not to see them simply as "fee fighters". The National Union of Students...
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Hunt for missing student
Police have asked the academic community for help in tracing a mature student who has been missing since November. Details relating to Amitabho Das are limited, but police know he is missing from the...
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Cambridge vows to end dearth of northern undergraduate applicants
A North-South divide in applications for undergraduate places at Cambridge was revealed this week as the university published details of its admissions in 2004. The university's figures showed that,...
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Recruiting body in crisis
ߣߣÊÓƵ's main foreign-student recruiting company, already in financial turmoil, has been hit by the resignations of its chief executive and the chairman of its governing board and the loss of a...
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US slack as Swiss profit
A rise in the number of foreign students enrolling at Swiss universities could in part be due to tightened visa restrictions in the US. Seventeen per cent of the student body in Switzerland is made...
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RAE policy gets rethink
New Zealand's universities have won a battle to prevent state-sanctioned comparisons of research quality with the UK. A report says the level of hostility from universities towards institutional...