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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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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?
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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