'Overhaul foundation degree structure'
The funding of and regulations for foundation degrees need to be overhauled if government targets for boosting skills and widening participation are to be met, policy-makers have been warned....
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Survey shows real-terms cut
One in five higher education institutions will suffer a real-terms cut in funding next year, a survey by Universities UK has found, writes Alan Thomson. It means that about 20 universities and higher...
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Warwick hints at higher fees
University chiefs have given their clearest indication yet that they favour higher tuition fees for students, writes Alan Thomson. Baroness Warwick, chief executive of Universities UK, told MPs this...
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Local union row threatens national talks
Relations between two of the chief negotiators in national talks on lecturers' terms and conditions have all but collapsed, threatening the progress of the new joint negotiating machinery. Jill Jones...
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Unit head hits back after MPs' broadside
The head of the university research unit that is under fire from MPs for its "confused" and "untrue" criticisms of the government's private finance initiative has described the MPs' attack as a...
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Jobs must go to make UK books balance
Universities up and down Britain this week announced job cuts as they struggled to balance their books in the face of falling student numbers and budget cuts. Staff at the University of Manchester...
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Whistleblower: Oxford glossed ruling of inquiry, says lawyer
An Oxford legal don has said that the university was wrong to suggest in a public statement that it had been vindicated by a special inquiry into the forced ejection of an international scholar. John...
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Whistleblower: UCE takes action against lecturer
The failed lecturer who sells essays to students to help them get through university faces legal action from her former employer, the University of Central England, after a THES investigation found...
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Protest highlights student digs issue
Students at the University of Surrey protested last week against proposed rent rises on campus of 24 per cent over the next four years. But the problem of soaring student accommodation costs is not...
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Abertay goes on critical list
Urgent action is necessary to assure degree standards at the University of Abertay Dundee, the Quality Assurance Agency has warned. Funding chiefs may intervene to supervise necessary reforms. Two...
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'Insulting' pay offer leads to a strike
Further education college lecturers have voted to back a two-day strike next week over an "insulting" 1.5 per cent pay offer from employers. An estimated 32,000 lecturers will leave classrooms empty...
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'Involve employers in making graduates employable'
There are serious mismatches between the expectations of academics and employers about the skills undergraduates should learn, according to a pilot survey by the Council for Industry and Higher...
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NI parties clash over student finance
Claims about a six-year delay on a review of student finance have sparked a political storm in Northern Ireland. Sinn Fein has alleged that a decision to put off a review until 2008 had already been...
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Homesick Dutch cope better
British students suffer from a high level of homesickness and female students suffer more than males, according to new research. A study by British and Dutch psychologists found that more than 80 per...
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Analysis: Clinical friends are good
A healthy partnership between universities and the NHS is essential to the reform of healthcare and to Labour's widening participation agenda. Claire Sanders reports on two such alliances. The Leeds...