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...
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It's no more Mr Nice Guy
As front man for Scottish universities, Bill Stevely told ministers £100m more was needed. As he steps down, Olga Wojtas asks if cash is on its way Scottish ministers must deliver at least an extra £...
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LSC seeks hike in college students' fees
Tuition fees could rise by 40 per cent for students studying higher education access and professional courses in further education colleges under proposals from the Learning and Skills Council. If...
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V-cs buy into idea of building the brand
Top-up fees are ushering in a new era in marketing. Chris Johnston reports The latest sign of the new professional era of marketing emerging in universities came this month in The Times Higher 's...
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Way clear for private firms to hand out degrees
The Government has prepared the way for the creation of a new breed of private universities. Multinational companies, such as Unilever and BAE Systems, which already have unofficial universities to...
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Golden diamond outshines rest
University finances are improving but the figures reveal a wide disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Chris Johnston and Alan Thomson report The newly merged Manchester University will in...
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Oldest still best endowed
University finances are improving but the figures reveal a wide disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Chris Johnston and Alan Thomson report The UK's two oldest universities, Cambridge and...
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Paris
The French Parliament has finally adopted a new bioethics law, five years later than originally planned. The legislation continues to ban reproductive cloning of an embryo - punishable by up to 30...
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Minsk
A report by Ukraine's Institute of Social, Economic and Political Problems on poverty among students indicates that 56.7 per cent live on less than 100,000 roubles (£25 a month.)
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Brussels
Philippe Busquin, European Union research commissioner, has failed to secure re-nomination by the Belgian government and will not be reappointed when his term of office expires at the end of October...
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London
Ethel de Keyser, veteran anti-apartheid activist and director of the Canon Collins Trust for Education in Southern Africa, which administers the Nelson Mandela Scholarship programme, has died aged 77.
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Durham, North Carolina
In a deal with Apple, Duke University is to hand out iPod digital players to all its 1,650 new students but says the goal is educational, not entertainment. A dedicated university website, modelled...
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Nairobi
The Kenya-based African Economic Research Consortium aims to increase the pool of professional economist researchers by funding a PhD and masters programme for 133 staff at 15 African universities....