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The increase in UK tuition fees may be the tipping point for prospective students to head to Europe

Get more study for your money inside the Eurozone

Lower fees, smaller classes and an international cohort are enticing Brits to the mainland, says Steve McCormack

UK students head abroad as fees rise to £9,000

The first concrete signs of a student flight to Europe as the massive UK hike in tuition fees approaches is emerging.

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High-fee UK universities fail to make grade

Thursday, 2 June 2011

More than 20 universities planning to charge the maximum £9,000 fee for students next year have failed to make the top 200 of an influential international higher education league table.

American liberal arts colleges: Where art meets science

Thursday, 17 March 2011

In 1959, the British scientist and novelist CP Snow warned of a divide between scientists and "literary intellectuals". He explained that few of his friends and colleagues had both read one of Shakespeare's plays and could explain the second law of thermodynamics. The British education system, he argued, forced children to specialise at too early an age, pushing them towards either the arts or science and industry. More than half a century later, how much has changed?

More students go abroad as Imperial joins £9,000 club

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Richard Garner: Imperial College London has become the first university outside Oxbridge to set tuition fees at £9,000.

Philip Hensher: Why stay at home for the best education?

Saturday, 12 February 2011

Are we, in general, stick-in-the-muds? Do students hate abroad, or something?

Simon Dennis

Go to university abroad, Britain's top comprehensive tells its pupils

Monday, 31 January 2011

One of the country's top-performing state schools is urging its pupils to go university overseas next year to avoid the rise in tuition fees.

 

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