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New investment brings new PhD opportunities to Scotland »

Scottish universities have invested in 31 new PhD studentships to help boost the chemicals industry. The Scottish Funding Council, ScotCHEM, and Chemical Sciences Scotland announced the initiative in mid-September. It will give students at Heriot-W...

Fri 03 Oct 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

New post-graduate accommodation complex proposed »

Proposals for a postgraduate campus the size of Pollock Halls have been put forward in a bid by the University of Edinburgh to attract more international students. The Journal has learned that discussions at the meeting of the University of Edinb...

Fri 03 Oct 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Scottish Government challenges cash-strapped universities »

A government-led funding initiative for higher education in Scotland has challenged universities to demonstrate how their use of public funds supports the economy. The Joint Future Thinking Taskforce, which had its final meeting last week, will re-...

Fri 03 Oct 2008 by Guy Robertson | Read more »

Overseas universities battling for funding in 'global marketplace' »

 Universities in Britain and across the world are facing fresh concerns over funding due to globalisation, a survey has revealed this month.A study by the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) found that traditional financial problems hav...

Fri 03 Oct 2008 by Michael Fern | Read more »

Wage rise blamed for wave of university redundancies »

Cost increases and budget insufficiencies are to result in staff redundancies at Queen Margaret University according to an announcement last week. Escalating pensions and skyrocketing energy expenditure have been blamed for the estimated 35 job cuts, d...

Fri 03 Oct 2008 by Adam Bergin, Robyn Keystone | Read more »

More funding for English students »

Students from England will this year be entitled to more Government funding to help cover the rising costs of living. Higher Education Minister, Bill Rammell has announced that the number of freshers from England eligible for maintenance grants have...

Fri 03 Oct 2008 by Adam Carrington | Read more »

Disgruntled QMU staff leak email amid timetable dispute »

Disgruntled staff at Queen Margaret University (QMU) have revealed that disputes over the timetable are threatening to leave the institution with “no fully workable timetables at the start of term,” with the potential to disrupt the planned...

Wed 17 Sep 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

BBC uncovers Brits using fake degrees purchased online »

An investigation by the BBC has found that academic qualifications sold on the internet by a fake university are being used by thousands worldwide, including almost 150 in Britain. St Regis University, allegedly based in Liberia, was shut down in 2005 ...

Wed 17 Sep 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Five die in gap-year bus crash »

Five British women travelling in South America were killed after the bus they were travelling in crashed in Ecuador earlier this month. The women, four teenage gap-year students and their guide, died after a lorry crashed into their bus on a road be...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Martin Howard | Read more »

Family speaks out ahead of Kercher hearing »

Meredith Kercher

Legal proceedings have begun in Italy in the case of murdered British exchange student Meredith Kercher, with members of her family in attendance. Ms Kercher, 21, from south London, was killed in the Italian city of Perugia in November while partici...

Thu 24 Apr 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Scottish post-grads given 18 days to pay after debt called in »

Scotland's higher education funding body is attempting to claw back funds from graduates in a bid to cover the shortfall created by the abolition of the Graduate Endowment fee, The Journal has learned.The Student Awards Agency for Scotland (SAAS), whic...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Paris Gourtsoyannis | Read more »

Fresher drank himself to death, inquest rules »

An inquest has ruled that a University of Exeter fresher found dead in November 2006 died of alcohol abuse. Gavin Britton drank himself to death at a university golf society initiation ceremony in which about 20 members of the group took part in a nigh...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Joanna Hosa | Read more »

Cambridge announces further changes to admissions process »

Less than half of all school students currently take a GCSE in a foreign language

From 2009, Cambridge University will no longer insist that applicants have a foreign language GCSE in a bid to attract more pupils from state schools. The move was announced only a month after the university took the decision to scrap its separate appl...

Wed 26 Mar 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Students offering alternative to the mainstream »

US Flag

In an attempt to break the strangle-hold of multi-national news organisations in the country, a daily national student newspaper has been launched in America to provide young people with independent coverage of the US presidential campaigns. Drawing...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Joanna Hosa, Ben Judge | Read more »

Cuts in funding for second degrees »

Funding for students taking a second undergraduate degree will be cut this year by the government. The Conservative motion opposing the plan was defeated.Cuts of around £100m a year were announced in September last year. The money that has been u...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Joanna Hosa | Read more »

Thousands of student bursaries go unclaimed »

Thousands of students from low income backgrounds are missing out on bursaries to which they are entitled, a university watchdog has claimed. Over 12,000 students who could have claimed a £1,000 grant towards their education failed to do so, acco...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Exam cheats found guilty of fraud »

A city banker and a student from the University of York both face jail sentences after being found guilty of cheating in university exams.Jerome Drean, a former Bank of America and Credit Suisse employee, and 23 year-old student Elnar Askerov used a fa...

Fri 15 Feb 2008 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Secret restorers of the Panthéon clock cleared of lawbreaking »

Inside the Pantheon

Four members of a secret organisation, known as the Undergunther, were released by the Paris Court of Justice on Friday 23 December. From September 2005 to September 2006 they had occupied the Panthéon, the famous cathedral in the Latin Q...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Joanna Hosa | Read more »

Protests held as 'fascists' speak at Oxford »

Hundreds of anti- racism campaigners gathered outsdie to oppse the event

Protests were held on Monday 26 November at the Oxford Union's freedom of speech forum in opposition to the decision to let Nick Griffin and David Irving speak at the event. Around 1,000 anti-racism campaigners gathered outside the union’s St Mic...

Mon 03 Dec 2007 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

Leeds University holds memorial service for murdered student »

Meredith Kercher

Staff and students at the University of Leeds have held a memorial service to remember student Meridith Kercher, who was murdered in Italy on Friday 2 November.The 21-year-old student was found dead in her apartment in Perugia where she was studying on...

Tue 20 Nov 2007 by Nick Eardley | Read more »

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