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Thousands join student protest over top-up fees Students and their supporters brought central London to a standstill yesterday as they marched in protest at government plans to let universities...
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20% pay rise plan fails to pacify unions
Some lecturers could get pay rises of 20 per cent next year, according to figures released by employers this week. The news comes as the two main academic trade unions crank up the threat of...
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'Fifth dimension' lures intrepid team
A fizz of evaporating black holes could give a team of British physicists a glimpse into the fifth dimension. The experiment, which is straight out of the pages of a science-fiction novel, will be...
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In the news: Ruth Deech
Dame Ruth Deech was this week appointed the first independent adjudicator for higher education. She will act as the ombudsman for student complaints nationwide, replacing the antiquated visitor...
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Appointments
Peter Goddard , master of St John's College, Cambridge and professor of theoretical physics, has been appointed director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Princeton, from...
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QAA fails 12% of foundations
Quality watchdogs are to raise serious questions about the standard of foundation degrees, casting doubt on the government's flagship higher education expansion policy. After the first-ever...
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Minister favours doubling grants in line with Scotland
Student grants should be doubled to £2,000, although the government is also keen to waive fees, higher education minister Alan Johnson said this week. He told politicians and students gathered at the...
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EU fees fear may cost Britain dear
Introducing top-up fees could cost UK higher education millions of pounds in lost income from European Union students, the British Council has warned, writes Tony Tysome. The council is worried that...
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V-c-turned-DG to do battle for sector but declares support for top ups
Sir Alan Wilson, vice-chancellor of Leeds University, was this week appointed the first director-general for higher education, charged with driving forward the government's student access and...
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Next week
IMPERIAL SUNSETS Hugh Thomas reflects on the nature of empires and the fact that they usually end at a time when no one expects it ALSO Philip Anderson finds Susan Greenfield's vision of the future...
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APU announces new v-c
Anglia Polytechnic University has announced that David Tidmarsh will take over from vice-chancellor Michael Malone-Lee when he retires next autumn. Professor Tidmarsh is pro vice-chancellor of the...
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Standards 'charade'
Statisticians this week delivered a damning verdict on scientific standards applied in performance monitoring of higher education and other public services. A working party of the Royal Statistical...
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Teacher training boost
The number of new entrants to initial teacher training rose to 31,885 in 2001-02 from 30,765 in 2000-01. Figures released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency show a rise in students...
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E-foundation degree
Education secretary Charles Clarke gave his blessing to an online foundation degree in business and management this week. The degree has been launched jointly by Bournemouth and Leeds Metropolitan...
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Comedian 1 Scud stud 0 in style wars
What is it that University College London graduates such as comedian Ricky Gervais, the members of pop group Coldplay and Alex Comfort, author of Joy of Sex , have that Oxford University graduates...