AoC hits out at post-16 strategy
College leaders have found gaping holes in the government's new strategy for post-16 learning. The Association of Colleges is particularly worried by the lack of discussion about what colleges are...
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Rare sheep project expands as foot-and-mouth fears linger
Scientists are to continue with a project to save rare sheep from foot-and-mouth disease because they feel the government has not acted to remove the threat of a repeat of the epidemic, writes Steve...
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Appealing UK nets £1.5bn
British universities recruited a record 141,000 overseas students this year, which added about £1.5 billion in tuition fees to their coffers. Total numbers were up by nearly 17,000, or 12 per cent,...
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North reaps games' reward
More than 500 of the world's fittest sporting minds met in Manchester this week in the run-up to the 17th Commonwealth Games. The 12th Commonwealth International Sport Conference, the biggest of its...
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'Hacker fakes the grade by mimicking her tutors'
A student at the University of Delaware has been charged with hacking into the university's computers three times to improve her grades. Darielle Insler allegedly used faculty passwords she obtained...
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Puffer fish expands knowledge of human genes The puffer fish has begun to answer questions about how humans are made and why they do what they do, according to a team of scientists from Britain, the...
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Update: 12:30
UCL provost resigns Sir Chris Llewellyn Smith has resigned as provost of University College London after just three years. He has played a significant role in drawing the government's attention to...
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Differential pay is given green light
Universities have been given the go-ahead to introduce differential pay for academics. The change was announced in the government's national science strategy, Investing in Innovation, which was...
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Arts enjoy rise in status with promise of own research council
Arts and humanities subjects are to get their own research council and should share in the funding available to science, according to a review led by the Department for Education and Skills, writes...
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Finance is favourite recruiter
Companies in audit, consulting and financial services are the most popular graduate recruiters this year, according to student organisation AIESC UK. The only other category to make the top 25 rated...
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Cambridge cool over top-up fees
Malcolm Grant, tipped by some to be Cambridge University's next vice-chancellor, has distanced himself from higher tuition fees as a solution to Cambridge's projected £11 million deficit. As support...
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Queen to judge in design row
A rising star of haute couture will ask the Queen to adjudicate on claims that his career has been damaged by unfair treatment at the hands of a top design college, writes Phil Baty. Jan Bertelsen,...
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'AS-level pupils are under too much work pressure'
Researchers have told the government to look again at AS levels because pupils are overwhelmed by work. The message comes after a two-year nationwide survey of AS levels by a research team led by...
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Key-skills drive may put study in shade
Undergraduate learning could be impaired by the growing pressure on universities to improve graduate employability, according to findings from the "Skills plus" project. The project, which involved...
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Analysis: Bring lost boys back from Neverland
Young white males are the group least likely to enter higher education the NAO says, but some think the data are skewed. Government watchdogs have stood by a report that concludes that white young...