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* 23.3 per cent of postgraduates were domiciled overseas before entering higher education in the UK * 8.2 per cent of first degree students were domiciled overseas * 13.1 per cent of all full-time...
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Second reading of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill due next Thursday
The second reading of the Teaching and Higher Education Bill is due to take place in the House of Lords next Thursday. Many peers are expected to oppose certain parts of the bill.
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What the bill says
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Troubled response
The Teaching and Higher Education Bill gives education secretary David Blunkett - and his successors - sweeping new powers. THES reporters spell out these powers and the wide-ranging reaction to them...
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Kennedy hunt
No more luck for information seekers after Helena Kennedy's report on further education. Here the problem is that it costs too little - in fact, it is completely free. So bookshops do not stock it,...
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Sector Pounds 800m in red
NEW figures released today by vice chancellors reveal that universities face a shortfall of almost Pounds 800 million over the next two years. The figures coincide with a Higher Education Funding...
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Bill faces rough ride
THE government's new Teaching and Higher Education Bill was this week denounced as the most Draconian attack on university autonomy this century. Legal experts agree that the bill, published last...
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The collision of two worlds
It has been stormy and has gone on for centuries. Huw Richards charts the relationship between government and the universities. EVER since universities were first set up they have had to fight to...
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Primary care R&D spending jumps 70 per cent
Department of Health spending on primary care research will rise from Pounds 30 million to Pounds 50 million, about 70 per cent, over five years. R&D in the area is relatively underdeveloped.
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Four in frame for student debt and billion-pound sweetener
A BILLION-pound sweetener may have to be paid to the private sector purchaser of the student loan debt at a time of rising university debt, the House of Lords heard this week. Baroness Maddock,...
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Shotgun dreading
Relief for Ken Edwards, vice chancellor of the University of Leicester. The chance of his becoming higher education's answer to JFK has eased somewhat after a failed appeal to the city's Crown Court...
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Artful vice
Kingston University's departing vice chancellor, Robert Smith, appears to have union relations down to a fine art. Natfhe leaders have complained about the university spending a cool Pounds 11,961...
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Body of evidence
Date for your diary: next Thursday, 10am sharp at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court, London. Be there to support this column's favourite artist, Anthony-Noel Kelly. As we have reported, his choice of...
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Tabloid Earl
Alumnus to be proud of No. 150 has just demonstrated his family's ability to attract tabloid attention. That well-known exemplar of family values, Charles Edward Maurice, 9th Earl Spencer, qualifies...
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Dear Dearing
Trouble getting that elusive Christmas present for the person who has everything? Not surprising: Sir Ron Dearing's report has vanished completely from the nation's bookshops. There are plenty of...