Do ‘second-chance colleges’ still have a future?
With Wales’ Coleg Harlech due to be sold this month, Sam Christie reflects on why ‘second-chance colleges’ have failed to thrive given their role in post-industrial communities
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Buckingham takes over Manchester Met’s Crewe campus
The University of Buckingham will open a new health science campus on Cheshire site
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Arbitrary minimum grade thresholds are ‘morally wrong’
Today’s Office for National Statistics report will make challenging reading for the Augar review panel, but it must not resort to draconian cuts to student numbers, says Greg Walker
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Student loans change to add £12 billion to UK deficit
Estimated portion of loans that will never be repaid to be classed as government spending, rather than lending
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English review mulls barring students with low grades from loans
Options said to have been modelled by Augar review could mean students with Ds or Es at A level are in effect blocked from entering university
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Secrecy claims as first ‘Western civilisation’ degree announced
Staff, council and senate at Wollongong ‘did not know talks were under way’
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More cuts to Australian research in ‘brutal’ mini-budget
PhD scholarships in the sights as cutbacks more than double analysts’ expectations
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Chinese support for Plan S ‘major blow’ to opponents
Critics of open-access initiative had warned of limits on collaborations and publishing choice if major regions stayed out
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Europe launches continent-wide recruitment fair for economists
Why other academic disciplines have not also introduced such markets is a ‘very good question’, organisers say
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Qualification recognition is crucial to refugee integration
Credential verification would allow refugees to access education and the labour market, say Terje Mørland and Stig Arne Skjerven
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Students from single-sex schools ‘anxious’ in mixed universities
Unfamiliarity with opposite sex may harm academic results when mixed-gender cooperation required, says study
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Business schools ‘ignore cooperatives’
Graduate programmes tipped to lure disillusioned millennials
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New funding aims to reboot internationalisation in Brazil
Capes-PrInt programme could help Brazil become more active in internationalisation, but worries emerge about scheme’s concentration and its future under new right-wing president
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How to balance the civic cost of graduate retention
Universities can help bridge the gap between graduates who stay put and their local communities through targeted outreach programmes for students and staff, says Christopher Birchall