Category Archives: University

A-levels ‘could become university entrance exams’

Posted on May 18, 2012 by dchan

Giving academics too much influence over A-levels could turn them into university entrance exams, says private schools leader John Wood. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Rise in tuition fees ‘did not boost teaching time’

Posted on May 17, 2012 by dchan

Poll of 9,000 university students shows undergraduates still spend only 13 hours a week with teachers despite tuition fee rise. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Vice chancellor criticises ‘back door route’ in to university

Posted on May 14, 2012 by dchan

The Government’s former schools chief has attacked university admission rules which give preferential treatment to poorer applicants because of their background. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Higher education standards in Britain are falling behind

Posted on May 11, 2012 by dchan

Britain is lagging behind other nations for higher education because of a lack of public investment in universities, according to research. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Students with European heritage could study for free in Scotland

Posted on May 10, 2012 by dchan

Students from England or Wales who have an Irish grandparent could avoid paying tuition fees at Scottish universities because of a legal loophole, it has emerged. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Drunken Cambridge students cause havoc in public park

Posted on May 8, 2012 by dchan

They are among the most academically gifted in the country and are destined for glittering futures. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Keele University joins US admissions system

Posted on May 1, 2012 by dchan

Keele University has become the first English university to join the Common Application system for university admissions in the United States. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Those who can, but don’t want to teach

Posted on April 30, 2012 by dchan

Number of applicants accepted to training falls by almost 10% {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Dundee University voted best student experience in the UK

Posted on April 26, 2012 by dchan

Students at Dundee have the best experience of university life, according to a new survey. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Harvard University says it can’t afford journal publishers’ prices

Posted on April 25, 2012 by dchan

Exasperated by rising subscription costs charged by academic publishers, Harvard University has encouraged its faculty members to make their research freely available through open access journals and to resign from publications that keep articles behind paywalls. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Alan Milburn calls for background checks on university students

Posted on April 24, 2012 by dchan

Universities should assess the social background of each student during the admissions process to break the middle-class stranglehold on places, according to the Government’s social mobility tsar. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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The steep climb to university starts with GCSEs

Posted on April 24, 2012 by dchan

Only a month to go before GCSEs and (so the myth suggests) boys will be starting to revise while girls will have been working flat out for months. For both, however, the results will have a critical bearing on whether … Continue reading →

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Private schools to dominate new £18,000-a-year university

Posted on April 23, 2012 by dchan

Two-thirds of candidates given provisional places at the New College of the Humanities – established by a series of leading academics to rival Oxford and Cambridge – are independently-educated, figures show. Just a fifth are from state schools. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Assertiveness classes for Oxford female undergraduates

Posted on April 23, 2012 by dchan

Oxford University has introduced assertiveness classes for female students in a bid to get them to compete for jobs in the City and aspire to the boardroom. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Leading universities criticise ‘misguided’ admissions targets

Posted on April 20, 2012 by dchan

Top universities are being told to set “ambitious” new targets to increase the number of students recruited from poor homes and underperforming schools. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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More Russell Group academics ‘earning six-figure salaries’

Posted on April 20, 2012 by dchan

Spending on senior staff at top universities has doubled in less than a decade, figures show, prompting criticism over an executive “pay boom”. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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David Willetts: admit students on ‘potential’ rather than grades

Posted on April 19, 2012 by dchan

Bright students from poor-performing schools should be admitted to university with worse A-level results than other pupils, a minister claimed today. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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The future of learning and teaching in higher education

Posted on April 17, 2012 by dchan

Higher education is facing its biggest shakeup in 50 years. But will this improve the quality of teaching and the student experience, asks Janet Murray. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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Fines for universities slammed by admissions don Professor Steven Schwartz

Posted on April 16, 2012 by dchan

A key architect of moves to get more working class students into universities has warned that schools are not producing “recruitable” teenagers – and backed grammar schools as a way to create social mobility. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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University to have alcohol-free areas for Muslims

Posted on April 13, 2012 by dchan

A university Vice-Chancellor is planning to ban the sale of alcohol in parts of the campus because some Muslim students believe it is “evil” and “immoral”. {lang: ‘en-GB’}

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