Oxford student aiming to crowdfund her master's degree hits back at critics for calling her a 'posh brat'
29 July 2014 01:00 PM
Emily-Rose Eastop was accepted on an MSc course but had been unable to find the £26,000 needed for her degree
Will The Minerva Project - the first 'elite' American university to be launched in a century - change the face of higher learning?
24 July 2014 12:00 AM
The university has no lecture halls, no debating societies, no sports teams and no fraternities. Instead, the 33 students who have made the cut at Minerva, will travel the world and change the face of higher learning
Chalk Talk: How not to slip up during university applications
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If you are applying for a place at Oxford or Cambridge and the interviewer says: "Tell me about a banana," you might feel a burning desire to reply, in John McEnroe-esque terms: "You cannot be serious!" But you should keep a straight face and answer the question, according to a new guide.
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The University of Leicester's vice-chancellor Bob Burgess has shaken up higher education
29 May 2014 12:00 AM
Richard III isn't the only discovery at the University of Leicester, its vice-chancellor Bob Burgess has shaken up higher education. As he prepares to retire, Lucy Hodges talks to colleagues about his legacy and his ongoing campaign to modernise degree classifications
Richard III isn't the only discovery at the University of Leicester - its vice-chancellor Bob Burgess has shaken up higher education
28 May 2014 08:30 PM
As he prepares to retire, Lucy Hodges talks to colleagues about his legacy and his ongoing campaign to modernise degree classifications
Miley Cyrus studies? Not the gimmick it might sound
07 April 2014 09:29 PM
The pop star’s work may not be high art, but the US professor behind a new Cyrus syllabus believes it is a gateway to the analysis of race, class and gender
More than half of BME university lecturers and staff have suffered racial abuse at work
07 April 2014 06:45 PM
More than half of black and ethnic minority lecturers and staff believe they have suffered racial discrimination at university, according to new research.
Tuition fee hike blamed as international students at UK universities fall by a quarter
02 April 2014 12:07 AM
The first decline in the number of international students at English universities for almost three decades is revealed in research published today.
Speaker John Bercow named chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire
28 February 2014 11:07 AM
The Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has been named the new chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire.
Oxford don criticised for claiming women's dresses should look like a 'stormable fortress'
24 February 2014 01:25 PM
Robin Lane Fox made the remark in a gardening column for the Financial Times
Elite ‘Oxbridge alternative’ university to stop basing admissions on A-level results due to concerns over standards
09 February 2014 01:07 PM
London-based New College of the Humanities to make offers based on interviews and earlier exam scores
London Metropolitan University has restored its finances and reputation - but at a price
29 January 2014 09:15 PM
The university has had a wretched time of late, being hit by a £36.5m fine and stripped of the right to sponsor students from outside the EU
Cambridge raises A-level grades needed to study science degrees
22 January 2014 10:42 AM
Science, maths, medicine and engineering degrees will all now require at least two A*s and one A
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