Student living is priciest in Britain
Overseas students are getting better at finding the best deal. As a result, Geoff Maslen reports, the UK risks losing out to cheaper competitors Britain has the highest living costs among the main...
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Offa remit will not include 'power to tackle access failures'
Universities will not be penalised if they fail to meet their own milestones for enrolling more students from poor backgrounds, the Government confirmed this week. Academic institutions will also be...
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Part-timers get sliding-scale aid
The first sign of a change in government thinking on financial support for part-time students emerged this week, as ministers approved a "sliding scale" of grants. After a lobbying campaign by the...
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Ministers criticise DFID's science culture
The Department For International Development, which oversees an annual research budget of more than £150 million, has demonstrated a "fundamental lack of scientific culture", MPs say. In a report...
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College pays £15K to ex-disability officer
A college has paid £15,000 to settle a disability discrimination claim brought by its former disability coordinator. Solicitors acting for Sharifa Farley, who headed a disability rights project at...
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Whistleblowers: 'If you want to get into LSE, pay me £7,000
"Nowadays, everything can be settled using money." With these nonchalant words, Zhang, a Chinese sixth-form student taking his A levels in Oxford, explained how simple it is to fix a place at...
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Huge demand for degrees that triple wages back home
A dearth of university places in China means that 1.3 million of the country's school-leavers are denied a university place, so demand for places in the world-renowned British system is on the...
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Profile: Deian Hopkin, London South Bank University v-c
Leader of the revolution and all that jazz A love of music was listed by a fifth of the country's university heads in a survey of vice-chancellors' backgrounds last month by The Times Higher . Few,...
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Colleges trumpet popular appeal
The UK's leading music colleges want to debunk the myth that they are the preserve of students from privileged backgrounds. This is one of the priorities of the new Conservatoires UK group, which...
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Media courses win BBC support
The BBC has signed two major agreements with universities in the Midlands. The corporation will for the first time provide joint training for students as part of a new media production course at De...
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Edinburgh specialist seeks university status
Edinburgh will have a new university by 2006, according to the principal of the city's Queen Margaret University College, Tony Cohen. There has been past speculation that QMUC might seek university...
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Bristol targets top global spot
Bristol University this week became the latest institution to launch a bid to join the global super league, when it unveiled plans to invest more than Pounds 250 million in new research facilities...
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Anger at Cambridge pay reforms
Heavyweight opposition from the heads of three science departments has prompted Cambridge University to rethink pay reforms that would offer better salaries for senior dons at the expense of junior...
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Degreed Africans trail in job market
South Africa is facing a growing graduate unemployment problem, according to a University of Cape Town study that shows joblessness among people with tertiary education soared from 6 per cent to 15...
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Norwegian students worry little about debt
A survey of Norwegian student finances has revealed that 40 per cent "rarely or never" think about how much they owe. Interviews with students at Oslo and Tromso universities, Stavanger University...