UKBA clarifies universities鈥 responsibilities
Institutions need not subject international students to biometric attendance monitoring, agency reveals
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London Met to reapply for licence to recruit
But it continues with court case seeking to overturn home secretary鈥檚 decision to revoke Highly Trusted Sponsor status last year
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Qatar strives to weave its Western branches into one
Emirate鈥檚 flagship aims to integrate partners in postgraduate programmes as part of 鈥2030鈥 plan
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Critical comeback
Having been away of late, I am only now able to respond to Simon Blackburn鈥檚 review of my book Imagining the University (鈥淐reative steps to po-po-mo heaven鈥, 31 January).First, the role of any...
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Evidence urges policy change for UKBA
I agree with your conclusions about Prime Minister David Cameron鈥檚 potentially颅encouraging statement in India on student visas (鈥淭alk of fair play is not enough鈥, Leader, 21聽February). While it is...
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Grade-point mileage
Regarding 鈥淐lassification reform will display your 鈥楾utu鈥 and your average number鈥 (News, 21 February). We were interested to note that Oxford Brookes University is to publish a grade-point average...
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Learn while they earn
The Sutton Trust鈥檚 recent report on the 鈥減ostgraduate premium鈥 shows that postgraduate education is the new frontier of widening participation (鈥淧ostgraduate premium鈥 fuels vicious cycle of social...
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First things first
Alan Ryan is quite right in advocating an emphasis on primary education (鈥淏uild from the ground up鈥, Opinion, 14 February). When the old Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals first supported...
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Pulp faction
As a long-established educational developer without an institutional subscription or a local university library, I am a strong supporter of open access (鈥淔ools鈥 gold鈥, 14 February). However, in an...
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Funding councils begin open-access consultation
They say 鈥榣essons have been learned鈥 after Research Councils UK is condemned for lack of dialogue
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Rotten to the core? Far from it
Bad apples who cheat may at times beat the system, but their misdeeds should not taint the honest and ethical majority
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Brick nations鈥 strengths are unevenly distributed, says report
Research gains in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea are not necessarily in their strongest suits, finds Thomson Reuters
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University of Buckingham medical degree to cost more than Harvard鈥檚
Private university鈥檚 new course awaits General Medical Council approval as critics decry projected 拢144,000 price
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Are you looking for trouble?
鈥淎 wonderful opportunity.鈥 That was how Louise Bimpson, corporate director of our ever-expanding Human Resources team, reacted to news that The Hub Events training organisation (motto 鈥淔resh Ideas,...
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28 February 2013
Rotters, not rotten - How does a discipline survive a series of scandals?