Times Higher Education - The week in higher education

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

31 May 2012. Sharp-eyed readers who wondered why, in our 17 May issue, we reported that only one of two academics at Queen Mary, University of London who wrote a critical letter to The Lancet had apparently been charged with ...

Oregon higher education officials consider a 6 percent tuition ...

Bill Graves, The Oregonian, oregonlive.com
2012-05-29 23:56:27

Oregon' seven universities are proposing to raise tuition an average 6 percent, bringing annual tuition and fees for a full-time undergraduate to $7841. But they are cutting fees so that the total cost of attendance for 2012-13 ...

Times Higher Education - Inside Higher Ed: Romney reveals higher ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-28 00:00:00

Mitt Romney, the presumed Republican presidential nominee, pledged last week that, if elected, he would reshape or do away with two major Obama administration higher education policy initiatives: the overhaul of the ...

Times Higher Education - THE 100 Under 50 university rankings ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

The Republic of Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology has topped the first Times Higher Education ranking of the 100 best universities under the age of 50, leading a strong showing for East Asian universities.

Times Higher Education - Architects of a nation have to lay down ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

No sooner had the celebrations that followed the Republic of South Sudan's independence from its northern neighbour in July last year died down than the country's fledgling government found itself facing serious challenges, ...

Times Higher Education - News in brief

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

As academics start to see the light at the end of their tunnels of marking, Times Higher Education is making its annual call for entries to its "exam howlers" competition, in which lecturers are invited to share their favourite ...

Times Higher Education - Sector may pay the price for privatised ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

The warning comes in reaction to analysis by Times Higher Education of data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency that show that capital spending on residential accommodation dropped by 28.9 per cent in the ...

Times Higher Education - Free school meal deal could leave ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Comments made last week by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister, suggest that the government is considering a new scheme to give PS2500 a year in financial aid to all pupils on free school meals entering university.

Times Higher Education - Income assessment: business stream ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Income assessment: business stream benefits sector. The Higher Education Business and Community Interaction Survey, published on 24 May, shows this to be the biggest chunk of a PS2.6 billion income stream for items such ...

Times Higher Education - Florida ever-blades: state bleeds after ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

In common with many US states in recent months, Florida has slashed its higher education budget, cutting $300 million (PS191 million) in a bid to help tackle its fiscal deficit. The move will force Florida's 11 public universities to ...

Times Higher Education - Indian postgrads shun UK sector

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Applications from overseas students have risen by up to 26 per cent at some major UK universities despite the government's tougher visa regime - but the number of Indian postgraduate submissions has fallen dramatically at ...

Times Higher Education - Fees raise appeal of land of the free

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Students at some of the UK's most prestigious independent schools are increasingly looking to the US for undergraduate places, the president of a leading liberal- arts college for women has said. Jane Mc Auliffe, head of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, US, told Times Higher Education that students and parents had said to her during a recent visit to the UK that the hike in tuition fees had been a "huge shock to the system". During her trip, Professor Mc Auliffe ...

Times Higher Education - Teesside dean criticised for email ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

In an email sent to staff at Teesside University's School of Computing on 20 April and passed to Times Higher Education , Alison Johnson, assistant dean for quality, learning and teaching at the school, sets out guidance on ...

Times Higher Education - News in brief

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

" Education is absolutely the last thing that should get squeezed because it's absurd to try to make amends for the spending mistakes of the past by jeopardising the prospects of the next generation," said Ignacio Valero, professor of ... Ms Ashton- Weir, who is now pursuing an arts and sciences degree at the same institution, said that Geelong did not provide her with appropriate academic support, particularly in mathematics, and is seeking compensation from the ...

Times Higher Education - Campus round-up

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Academics Emma Carey and Kate Davey of the university's School of Arts and Digital Industries also curated an exhibition at the shopping centre that showcased fashion styles throughout the Queen's 60-year reign. Twenty-four outfits were displayed, including a 1950s Hardy Amies ballgown, a 1960s ... Bizarre student inventions will go on display at an end-of-year design show. About 300 innovations by final-year Brunel University students will feature at the annual ...

Times Higher Education - THE 100 Under 50: This is just the start

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Visitors to our university often come with this question on their lips: how did the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) rise so high , so quickly? Here is how I answer them. The first factor is our strategic ...

Times Higher Education - Ucas chief: contextual data are unreliable

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Speaking at a conference on admissions reform, Mary Curnock Cook, chief executive of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, voiced doubts over the accuracy of information collected by Ucas about students' ...

Changes to higher education package approved | Louisiana Politics

Capitol news bureau, blogs.theadvocate.com
2012-05-31 01:02:33

A two-bill package intended to streamline operations in higher education passed without dissent in the state House Wednesday. Both bills were backed by state Sen. Ben Nevers, D-Bogalusa. The both passed unanimously in ...

Overturning or Modifying 'Grutter v. Bollinger?' - Innovations - The ...

Richard Kahlenberg, chronicle.com
2012-05-29 10:30:45

Indeed, there may be four conservative justices John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Atonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas who are willing to apply to higher education Chief Justice Roberts's argument in the K-12 setting: The way ...

Times Higher Education - Online pressure builds as Obama urged ...

unknown, timeshighereducation.co.uk
2012-05-31 00:00:00

Open-access advocates have attempted to build up a head of steam in the US by launching a petition on the White House website calling on the Obama administration to require all publicly funded research in the country to be ...