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More pupils than ever considering university
Education Guardian
More school students than ever before are considering going to university, according to a survey published today, in spite of the potential burden of loans and recently increased interest payments.
Why do so many students drop out, MPs ask
Education Guardian
Why do students drop out? Today MPs expressed impatience with universities for failure to block the haemorrhage of students from their courses.
University dropout steady at 22%
Education Guardian
An £800m drive to reduce the number of university dropouts has had virtually no effect, according to a report from a committee of MPs. The proportion of students who fail to complete their degree has remained at 22% for five years, it reveals.
£800m 'not cutting drop-out rate'
BBC News
More than a fifth of students still drop out of university courses in England and Wales despite £800m spent tackling the problem, MPs have said.
Should universities be left to sink or swim?
Mortarboard
If trends continue the government will have to decide whether it will step in to deal with a failing university, as it does in schools and the NHS.
Who will weather financial storm?
Education Guardian
Many universities are already in debt, and analysts say a drop in student numbers could make things worse.
Success for medical school's access programme
Education Guardian
Students from poor-performing schools who are accepted into medical school with lower grades do just as well as their higher-grade peers, a unique new study has found.
Oxford and Cambridge fail to improve state school intake
Education Guardian
Oxford and Cambridge universities are to overhaul their undergraduate recruitment strategies in recognition that they have failed to significantly increase the number of applicants from state schools.
NUS: Fear of debt breeds inequality
Mortarboard
Government is heralding interim Ucas application statistics as proof that top-up fees are not discouraging people from going to university. But scratch below the surface of the figures and a much murkier picture emerges.
More apply to UK's universities
BBC News
Some 26,517 more people applied for university courses in the UK this year than in 2007, a rise of 6.7%.
Liverpool's university students face a lifetime of debt
Liverpool Echo
GOVERNMENT plans to scrap the £3,000-a-year cap on tuition fees will lead to students being stuck with student debt for their entire working life, one of Liverpool’s most senior univer- sity academics has warned.
Pressure mounts for reprieve of student
Independent
More than 20 international lobby groups came together at the weekend to petition Afghanistan's President to repeal the death sentence handed down to Sayed Pervez Kambaksh.
And for your homework, please design a torture device
Education Guardian
An architectural school was at the centre of a row last night after it emerged that students were required to design a fully operational torture device.
More money to make universities green
Education Guardian
The government's push to make universities more environmentally friendly has been bolstered with £290m for sustainable building projects.
Champion of students back to set agenda
Times Higher Education
Treasury adviser and former NUS leader heads new National Student Forum.
Sentenced to death: Afghan who dared to read about women's rights
Independent
A young man, a student of journalism, is sentenced to death by an Islamic court for downloading a report from the internet. The sentence is then upheld by the country's rulers. This is Afghanistan – not in Taliban times but six years after "liberation" and under the democratic rule of the West's ally Hamid Karzai.
Ofsted and QAA forge alliance to improve higher and further education
qaa.ac.uk
Two of the most influential bodies in education have joined forces in a major new partnership to reduce red tape and increase efficiency in the drive to raise academic standards.
Britain is becoming the world's most popular destination for overseas students
Independent
Despite its food and weather, Britain is beginning to topple America from its position as the most popular place for overseas students to study, according to a survey published today.
Academics have to juggle too many tasks
Independent
The main headache for university staff these days is a lack of clear priorities. Administrators are pulled in different directions, while academics are called upon to carry out tasks for which they have never been trained and never expected to have to do when they opted for a university life. An academic in an institution with high aspirations is expected to produce quality research, exciting teaching and serious grant applications, while also serving on committees, assisting with fund raising, mentoring or being mentored, and generally making a contribution to the life of the community. It would be tough for anyone to keep so many balls in the air, but what makes it harder is the way that priorities shift.
Against the Grain: 'Students need to feel valued and trusted'
Independent
Alan Mortiboys is Professor of Educational Development at Birmingham City University. He argues that university lecturers should teach with more emotional intelligence.
Postgraduate students snub science
Education Guardian
The UK's position as a leader in higher education could be jeopardised by students turning their backs on postgraduate science courses, the Royal Society warned today.
Graduates found wanting as job posts rise
Education Guardian
Graduate job vacancies will rise this year but employers anticipate difficulties filling them, according to the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR).
Engineering: the degree of choice for terrorists?
Mortarboard
According to an Oxford University paper, many terrorists have an 'engineer's mindset'.
Braduates to guide bright children to university
Education Guardian
Graduate trainee teachers are to help 'gifted and talented' pupils get into sought-after universities under new plans announced today by the schools minister, Lord Adonis.
Turkish academic warns of government clampdown
Education Guardian
A political science professor convicted of insulting the founder of modern Turkey is saying academics are finding it increasingly difficult to criticise the government.
Vetting gets a mixed reception
Education Guardian
The jury is still out on the new system for checking international postgrads 'to protect national security'.
Gerald Pillay: Hope and faith
Education Guardian
Britain's only ethnic minority vice-chancellor tells David Ward about his university's special atmosphere.
Ending covert practices
Education Guardian
We've learned a thing or two about fair admissions, says Anthony McClaran.
12,000 students miss chance of bursaries worth up to £12m
Education Guardian
Up to 12,000 of the poorest students missed out on bursaries worth on average £1,000 each last year after data protection laws stopped their universities contacting them, a watchdog has revealed.
No student loan without ID card, says government
Education Guardian
Students will be "blackmailed" into holding identity cards in order to apply for student loans, the Tories have warned.
Research universities give diplomas a cool reception
Education Guardian
Only half of the top universities in the UK expect to accept students with diplomas when they make admissions decisions from 2010, a study has found.
Diploma warning from universities
BBC News
Almost four out of 10 universities are unlikely to accept students applying with the new Diploma qualifications, says a survey of admissions officers.
Top universities fail to spend £3m set aside to attract poorer students
Education Guardian
Millions of pounds which could have funded thousands of students through top universities went unspent last year as some institutions failed to allocate an average of 19% of the money put aside to provide bursaries for state school pupils.
Ethnic minority students 'still underachieving'
Education Guardian
Students from ethnic minorities still get lower than expected degree classifications and universities and colleges need to do more to prevent it, a new report urged today.
New guidance calls on universities to reject separatism and ban those who preach violence
Education Guardian
Universities with large numbers of Muslim students should consider rejecting demands for separate prayer and washing facilities to prevent their campuses segregating along religious lines and risking a climate where illegal extremist views can flourish, the government will suggest today.
No cash rescue for physics funding crisis
Education Guardian
The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) will not receive any funding to plug the £80m shortfall in its budget over the next three years, research council chiefs have confirmed.
Ethnic attainment 'needs action'
BBC News
Universities need to act urgently to ensure ethnic minority students are not discriminated against, a report argues.
Tackle extremism, academics urged
BBC News
Ministers have re-issued an appeal for university vice-chancellors to help battle the "serious" threat of violent extremism on some campuses.
Recruit more first time students, universities told
Education Guardian
The government wants universities to recruit 60,000 extra new first-time students by 2010, forge new relationships with employers and widen participation in higher education, it said today.
OIA announces new head
Education Guardian
The new head of the student complaints body in England and Wales is to be Rob Behrens, a former senior civil servant, it was announced today.
Funding for 60,000 more students
BBC News
The government is planning to fund an additional 60,000 places for first time students in England by 2011.
Record number of students start university
Education Guardian
The number of full-time students starting degrees at UK universities rose in 2007 to a record 413,430, bouncing back after a decline in the first year of top-up fees.
Ministers urged to postpone degree funding changes
Education Guardian
Government promises of a £20m safety net to ensure universities do not suffer from cuts to degree funding were today branded inadequate by the head of one of the institutions most likely to be affected by the changes.
Universities union urges vote on staff pay
Education Guardian
The University and College Union (UCU) today urged its members to vote on "crucial" changes to the way the union negotiates future pay deals for university staff.
Chaplaincies 'need to combat campus extremism'
Education Guardian
University chaplaincies should be more involved in managerial decisions relating to religion on campus to help combat extremism, according to a report published this week.
It's time for students to take back control of the NUS
Guardian Mortarboard
NUS president Gemma Tumelty wants to turn the union into a cosy lobby group, says Tom Walker. What she didn't bank on were the grassroots activists who want to defend it.
Ministers can let themselves have a second chance
Education Guardian
Proposals to cut second degree funding will have unintended consequences, says Sally Hunt.
A question of quality
Education Guardian
An English professor is on the warpath against the bureaucrats who monitor university teaching.
Two in three students get top degrees
Telegraph
Fears that university standards are being dumbed down have been raised after figures showed that almost two thirds of students were awarded top degrees last year.
Would-be students checked on Facebook
Education Guardian
A Cambridge University admissions tutor has admitted he checks up on students applying to his college by browsing their Facebook profiles. Dr Richard Barnes, senior tutor at Emmanuel College, confessed in the college magazine.
QAA to enlist students to audit quality
Times Higher Education
Students will gain a formal role in determining whether universities are up to standard under plans from the Quality Assurance Agency.
Immigration boss admits ignoring new rules
Telegraph
The Government official in charge of the immigration system has admitted telling her officers not to enforce new rules for deporting students who stay in Britain after their visas expire.
Students who overstay visas 'not deported'
Telegraph
Foreign students who overstay their visas are not being deported as they are not regarded as a high priority by the Home Office, it was reported last night.
Enrolment of British students at UK universities stalls
Education Guardian
The number of British students enrolling at UK universities has stalled while those coming to study from overseas has continued to rise, according to latest official figures released today.
Students ditch pot noodles and embrace the jet set
Education Guardian
Students are traditionally known for scrounging, scrimping and saving their way through university, but more and more of them are enjoying sophisticated lifestyles.
NUS: Cutting funding for ELQs is pure folly
Education Guardian
Universities that have worked hard to widen participation will suffer under the government's plans, says NUS President Gemma Tumelty.
New year, new union
Education Guardian
The National Union of Students is on the verge of a transformation that will make it more 'innovative'.
Tories to debate degree funding cuts
Education Guardian
The Conservatives will today join the growing swell of opposition to the government's decision to cut £100m in funding for second degrees.
Student overstayers will not face deportation
Education Guardian
Foreign students who overstay their visas will not be deported as a matter of routine, the Border and Immigration Agency has admitted.
Dunces are breaking down the doors
Education Guardian
British universities may come at the top of international league tables, but they are neglecting their roles as cultural and scientific bulwarks, says John Sutherland.
Social life high on wish list
Times Higher Education Supplement
A good social life and extracurricular activities rank alongside teaching quality when it comes to the factors students consider most central to their university experience, The Times Higher's annual student survey reveals.
Hefce unveils 'high-risk' plan
Times Higher Education Supplement
Millions of pounds will be ploughed into a "high-risk" strategy aiming to boost the number of adults with degree-level skills in the workforce.
22,000 rate best campuses
Times Higher Education Supplement
Thousands of students have rated their universities on everything from teaching quality to social life in a new league table revealing which universities offer the best all-round student experience.
Academics urge caution over Chinese collaboration
Education Guardian
British universities must stop courting China and start seeing the country as a threat, the former head of Nottingham University's Chinese campus warned today.
Women miss out on university places
Education Guardian
Older women and people from minority ethnic groups are least likely to secure university places, according to research from the University admissions service, Ucas.
Oxbridge snub to government on academies
Education Guardian
Oxford and Cambridge universities have turned down ministerial attempts to persuade them to adopt a city academy, the Guardian has learned. Their decisions deliver a fresh blow to the government, which is trying to raise the academic profile of the schools by wooing top universities to sponsor one.
Big guns train their sights on universities
Education Guardian
Arms research is a lucrative business, which is why universities are doing so much of it. But is it ethical?
Better shape up
Education Guardian
Universities must work with employers to give students and employees the skills they need.
'Awful, abhorrent' - but Oxford insists the debate must go on
Education Guardian
Hundreds of protesters are expected to gather outside the Oxford Union today to demand that the convicted Holocaust denier David Irving and BNP leader Nick Griffin are excluded from a debate on free speech.
Ministers accused of burying news on university funding changes
Education Guardian
The government was accused of 'sneaking out' £100m a year in cuts in higher education funding earlier this year because they contradicted the Leitch review of skills.
Universities vow to protect campus freedoms
Education Guardian
Universities said today they will continue to protect academic freedom in response to moves announced in a statement on national security by the prime minister.
Complex fees deter students, report warns
Education Guardian
The introduction of top-up fees in England and Wales last year created an "exceptionally complex" student funding system that is almost impossible to understand, according to research.
'I can't make ends meet'
Education Guardian
There is a crisis in student loans this year. Six weeks into term, many still have not received their payments.
Reinvest loans debt in HE, says vice-chancellors' group
Education Guardian
The chief executive of the vice-chancellors' group Universities UK today urged the government to reinvest money from the sale of the student loans debt back into higher education.
Student loan debt to be sold off
Education Guardian
The government has confirmed the sale of student loan debt in documents released as part of the Queen's speech.
£1,000 gap between men and women's pay after graduation
Education Guardian
Women graduates are paid less from the very beginning of their careers, with men earning £1,000 more than their college classmates within three years of leaving university, according to a major study published today.
Minister launches awareness campaign on student finance
Education Guardian
The government has launched a media campaign to boost awareness among students and their families of the financial support they can get to go to university.
'Most graduates' in full time job
BBC News
Some 74% of UK graduates are in full time jobs three and a half years after finishing their degrees, research says.
The Government's latest money-saving ruse will prove harmful to lifelong learning
Independent
The Open University is threatened with a loss of more than £30m of its teaching income. It will have a real impact on those who have a degree but want to continue with their education, to develop their skills, to improve their employment chances or further their careers.
Surrey outlines overseas ambitions for students
Education Guardian
Students at the University of Surrey could spend each year of their degree course in a different country under plans to turn the institution into one of the world's top universities.
V-c seeks to end first year exams
Times Higher Education Supplement
Gloucestershire plan would emphasise coursework and cut module choice. Melanie Newman reports. Gloucestershire University is consulting on "radical" plans to abolish exams for all first-year students as part of a new teaching and learning strategy.
Universities ask for funding increase
Education Guardian
Scottish universities want real-terms increase of £168m in their core funding in spending review.
Ucas: student numbers hit new high
Education Guardian
A record number of students started higher education courses in 2007, according to Ucas.
Former radical appointed students minister
Education Guardian
Students are to have a bigger say in Whitehall in the guise of a former radical and communist, now known as Lord Triesman.
Degree reform has been funked
Independent
It has taken more than three years for the group looking at degree classification under Bob Burgess to produce a report on what should be done. And the result? Contrary to the impression created by a number of newspaper articles, it has decided to leave the system as it is but to insist that all students should have a higher education achievement report.
All work to be counted in RAE evaluation
Times Higer Education Supplement
Every research paper published by every academic in each university department will be graded for quality under the system planned to replace the research assessment exercise, The Times Higher has learnt, writes Zoe Corbyn.
Research must show payoff
Times Higher Education Supplement
Peer reviewers will consider 'economic impact' in research councils' funding decisions. Zoe Corbyn reports. Academics face a change in the way their applications for research funding will be judged by the seven research councils to ensure that UK research has a bigger economic impact.
We need a public debate on fees - soon
Independent
The precarious question of what to do with the cap on university top-up fees has been swept under institutional and political carpets for too long. It is the question that could unlock a whole array of other problems in the sector, and almost no one who matters wants to be seen considering it.
VCs attack degree funding cuts
Education Guardian
Universities have reacted with anger as the government's cuts for students taking second degrees were spelt out to the sector.
BNP leader and Holocaust denier invited to Oxford Union
Education Guardian
The Oxford Union debating society came under fire last night after its president said he had approached Holocaust denier David Irving, British National party chairman Nick Griffin and the Belarussian dictator, Alexander Lukoshenko, to speak at forthcoming events.
Universities awarding more top degrees
Education Guardian
Evidence of degree inflation which suggests that the number of firsts and 2:1s awarded is increasing fastest at the elite Russell Group universities has been uncovered by a comprehensive new study.
Britain gets vote of foreign students
Times Higher Education Supplement
UK universities are the best in the world for teaching and supporting their international students, a survey of more than 40,000 students has found.
Troubled times for universities
The Independent
This week's report from the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) think tank, showing how little teaching and study time English students get, makes for sober reading.
First profit making company to award degrees
Education Guardian
A private for-profit company has for the first time been given the go-ahead to offer its own degrees, in a landmark decision which could open the door to increased privatisation of higher education.
Private tuition booms
Times Higher Education Supplement
Undergraduates are increasingly turning to private tutors, according to tutoring agencies, amid concerns that they are ill-prepared for higher education and are not getting enough support from their universities.
University students in England have it easy
Education Guardian
Undergraduates in England spend far less time studying than their European counterparts, casting doubt on the quality of degrees at their universities, a higher education thinktank warns today.
Study time
Education Guardian
Which universities give students the most attention? Tables by subject.
Britain lagging in sector growth
Education Guradian
Britain's higher education system is expanding less rapidly than that of many of its economic competitors, a report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) warns today.
Education worth more to British exports than banking
Education Guardian
Education is worth more to UK exports than financial services or the automotive industry, according to a report published by the British Council today.
Costs deter foreign students
Education Guardian
Growing numbers say British university courses do not provide value for money and look to US for education, study finds.
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