Hardship cash funds 'sprees'
Students admit to using aid for the poorest to finance social lives. Victoria Gittins reports Middle-class students are exploiting university hardship funds to subsidise their social lives, shopping...
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Former King's bursar gets payout
One of Cambridge University's most prestigious colleges has been forced to pay compensation to a bursar it suspended last year. King's College has conceded that Roger Salmon "acted with propriety and...
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Oxbridge teacher training tops table
Cambridge University has beaten Oxford University to the top of an independently compiled teacher-training league table. The success of Cambridge's education department follows its merger with...
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Admissions system uncovered We kick off our new series with a look at the rise in parent power Also Postwar problems : YahiaSaid on rebuilding Iraqi society and attacks on academics Postcards from...
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Cardiff's exit tests federal unity...
Wish to award own degrees strains federation, says Tony Tysome. The future of the University of Wales is in doubt following the decision of Cardiff University to leave the federal institution and go...
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... as it backs off claim to all lecturers' notes
Cardiff University has dropped proposed new rules forcing academics to hand over all lecture notes and research data when they leave for new jobs after an outcry from staff. The rules would have...
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Joint fire turns on Scottish merger
Draft legislation to merge Scotland's further and higher education funding councils has come under attack from vice-chancellors, trade unions and students. Responses to the Scottish Executive's...
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UK science in top two
The UK is the second most productive country in the world when it comes to publishing scientific papers, a global analysis of research papers has revealed. It shows that the US produced almost 35 per...
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Scots docs head home
St Andrews University medical students are set to have the chance of "repatriation" to meet the needs of the Scottish National Health Service rather than heading south to Manchester University as at...
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Graduates shy of jobs
This summer's graduates may be leaving job hunting too late, the careers company Graduate Prospects has warned. At recent careers fairs, only per cent of final-year students looked seriously for jobs...
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More young need apply
The proportion of young people in England applying for higher education is failing to keep pace with demographic trends, according to research released by David Rendel, the Liberal Democrat spokesman...
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Cheap centres flawed
Sixth-form centres in further education colleges are good value for money, but there is little evidence that they help to improve the quality of teaching or student achievement, an Ofsted report...
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Data Act overturns top table of colleges
It has been the unofficial but influential league of Oxford University colleges since the 1960s, but the annual Norrington table was blighted this week by concerns over dirty tricks and inaccuracy....
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MPs call for all research free online
Universities should ensure that all their published research papers are available free of charge to everyone online, MPs said this week. Following one of its most unexpectedly controversial inquiries...
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Call for late start to help men into medicine
Carol Black, the second female president of the Royal College of Physicians, has supported a move away from undergraduate medical education to stop women doctors dominating the National Health...