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Education cuts define Labour conference »

Higher education policies and attacks on government cuts marked the talking points for the Labour party's annual conference in Liverpool last week. In his speech to the conference, Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray attacked the Scottish Nationalist Par...

Tue 04 Oct 2011 by Jonathan Baldie, Rachel Watson | Read more »

Change at the top: Liam Burns to replace Porter as NUS UK chief »

Liam Burns, new president of the NUS

NUS Scotland president Liam Burns has been elected as the new leader of the National Union of Students UK.Mr Burns will replace current president Aaron Porter on 1 July 2011 for an initial one-year term. The 26-year-old, who is a member of the Labour ...

Sun 17 Apr 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Liam Burns elected NUS UK president »

Liam Burns

Two-term NUS Scotland president Liam Burns was today elected president of NUS UK in a four-candidate race at the union's national conference. Mr Burns, a graduate of Heriot-Watt University who previously served as president of HWUSA, garnered 446 vote...

Wed 13 Apr 2011 by Marcus Kernohan | Read more »

NUS presidential election campaign gets underway »

Liam Burns, president of NUS Scotland, has announced his candidacy in the forthcoming NUS presidential elections following Aaron Porter’s decision to step down. It recently emerged that current president Mr Porter would not be seeking re-electio...

Wed 09 Mar 2011 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

The £9,000 education »

Universities in England and Wales will be able to charge up to £9,000 a year in tuition fees from 2012, an increase of almost 200 per cent. Fees were initially expected to rise to around £7,000 a year after the Browne Review’s propos...

Wed 10 Nov 2010 by Jessica Abrahams | Read more »

Porter elected NUS president »

Aaron Porter has been elected as the 54th President of the National Union of Students (NUS) at the organisation's national conference in Gateshead. Mr Porter will succeed current NUS President Wes Streeting in June 2010 for an initial twelve month ter...

Sun 18 Apr 2010 by Joe Pike | Read more »

Million+ speaks out against concentrated postgraduate funding  »

Million +

A top university think tank has condemned those in favour of more concentrated research funding, saying this could damage the UK economy in the long run. Million+, who represent mostly post-1992 universities, produced a report last week in which they ...

Wed 17 Mar 2010 by Constantine Innemée | Read more »

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Sport

Worcester all bluster as Edinburgh breeze to victory

Arts and Entertainment

2012: Your literary briefing