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Lecturers strike over pensions
Thousands of university lecturers will go on strike today in a protest about changes to their pensions scheme.
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University staff strike in pension row
Monday, 21 March 2011
Thousands of staff at universities and colleges across England will stage a strike tomorrow in a bitter row over pensions.
Durham University accepted £11,000 donation from Iran
Friday, 18 March 2011
Richard Garner: Durham University has been paid more than £700,000 in research grants from Middle East sources, including £11,000 from the Iranian government.
Adverts aim to explain rise in tuition fees
Friday, 18 March 2011
After a winter of protests, the Government is attempting to win the hearts and minds of prospective students with a series of adverts explaining the increase in tuition fees.
Just one university will escape funding cuts
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Richard Garner: All bar one of England's 130 universities had their spending slashed for the next academic year yesterday.
Graduates 'to pay back double' on loans
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Graduates could be forced to pay back double their original student loans under the new fees system in England, figures have suggested.
University staff walks out over pensions
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Hundreds of university staff have gone on strike in a row over pensions.
State school pupils 'being put in for soft A-level options'
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Thousands of state school pupils are being put in for “soft” options at A-level to boost their school’s league table ranking, a conference heard today.
Universities try to avoid 'Ratner' tag by insisting on £7,500 tuition fees
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Not a single university has so far come up with a proposal to charge tuition fees of less than £7,500 a year – the figure ministers hoped would be the average, and the benchmark they subsequently budgeted for.
It's good to get out of the house, Assange tells Cambridge Union
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
He has perfected the art of spilling other people's secrets, but Julian Assange's appearance last night at the Cambridge Union Society (CUS) was a far from transparent affair.
As education cuts loom, drama teachers are first in line for chop
Monday, 14 March 2011
Art and drama teachers and those who teach vocational subjects are first in line to be sacked, as many headteachers are axeing subjects which do not qualify for the Coalition's highly academic flagship "English Baccalaureate".
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