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Australian election: smaller parties target debt, visas and fees
Doubling of international fees, closing visa ‘loopholes’ and tying student debt to mortgages among the ideas proposed ahead of poll
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Three providers fail to rectify complaints as compensation soars
Amount paid out to English and Welsh students more than doubles in a year, driven by cases involving ‘serious disruption’ and ‘misleading information’
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UK universities’ links to ‘repressive’ mega-campus condemned
Institutions advising on Armenia’s merger plans should consider how ‘academic city’ will make student protest impossible, warns Harvard professor
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Let’s embrace the REF’s radical redefinition of academic excellence
We finally have a mechanism to overthrow the UK’s neo-feudal system of academic gatekeeping, say Krzysztof Nawratek and?Lakshmi Priya Rajendran
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Student loans for franchised degrees worth nearly ?2 billion
Unregistered providers account for more than half of franchised tuition fee money claimed in past three years, new figures show
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Rise in university-business collaboration ‘driven by elite few’
More than 60 per cent increase in income over past two decades masks ‘stagnation’ in collaboration below high-performing institutions, report finds
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Another big rise in Australian student visa fees planned
Labor proposes A$400 hike to what are already the highest fees in the world with the opposition Liberal Party planning even steeper increases
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UK’s global research strengths ‘threatened’ by QR cuts
Block grant funding model found to hand country edge over other research systems, but only if value of funding isn’t further eroded
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Elite universities admit fewer local students as intakes grow
Students recruited from surrounding areas outnumbered by international applicants at 22 institutions
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Permanent contracts ‘barely improve’ job security for academics
Australian scholars with ongoing roles almost as fearful as casuals about being out of work
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Is the demonisation of liberalism damning US universities?
‘White liberals’ are attacked from all sides of the US political spectrum. And with Donald Trump ramping up the rhetoric, college professors?– popularly seen as archetypal liberals?– are very much in...
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Iran’s students are the victims of a system that is literally collapsing
Iranian HE was once an engine of social mobility. But now it is buckling under economic strain, mismanagement and political neglect, says Roohola Ramezani
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Serbia appoints ‘harmful’ new education minister amid protests
Academic who has been a vocal critic of long-running student blockades joins government, sparking further demonstrations