Give students back grants, urge voters
Voters are unhappy with tuition fees and the scrapping of student grants, according to two MORI polls conducted for The THES in March and April this year. The first showed that 63 per cent of people...
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Stanford nets record $400m gift Stanford University is to receive $400 million (£280 million) from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the largest donation ever made to a United States...
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250 jobs to go at King's King’s College London plans to cut nearly 250 jobs over the next three years, mainly from the schools of physical sciences and engineering, biomedical sciences and...
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Financial Times A system that offers personalised cancer treatment based on genetic tests has been developed by IBM, Emory University and the genomics group Nu-Tec Sciences. Georgia...
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Bill unveiled for $1bn university quake fund Two California congressmen are sponsoring a bill to set up a $1 billion trust fund to help universities revamp their buildings to withstand earthquakes....
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Mandarin admits policy entangled in red tape Education department chief Sir Michael Bichard admitted to MPs yesterday that education policy, such as the teaching quality assessment, had become overly...
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Financial Times The University of Liverpool has positioned itself as a centre for the next generation of dotcom entrepreneurs by unveiling the first UK degree in e-business. The Independent Thousands...
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Oxford attacked over race bias Oxford University’s Majlis Asian society has said it is concerned about the university’s attitude to race issues. It is particularly outraged by Oxford's handling of an...
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Violence erupts over Venezuelan protest Academics and students at the Central University of Venezuela were among the injured as students who want an end to a month-long occupation over university...
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Financial Times King's College, London, is to borrow £60m to help fund investments - the biggest unsecured loan raised by a British university. The Guardian The saga of quality assessment in British...
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£18 million for technology partnerships Trade secretary Stephen Byers today announced eight new Faraday partnerships for researching environmentally friendly technology. The £18 million for the...
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Financial Times Interview with Gabriel Hawawini, Insead's new dean, regarded by some as a conservative choice but who has a radical vision of the school's future. Berkeley's Haas School of Business...
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Russians jail American scholar An American Fulbright scholar who denied selling marijuana while a postgraduate researcher at Russia's Voronezh State University has been sentenced to three...
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Students sleep while dads toil
As Britain's university sector strives for mass participation, Patricia Walker warns of a system where more means less. With more than 1,200 universities and junior colleges, and 3 million students,...