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• QAA in the dark on 63 of 94 private providers
  Most institutions receiving SLC funds have had no quality review. John Morgan reports
  23 February 2012
• Spin doctor pays call to ailing LCC
  Max Clifford discussed reputation with college head after row over resignation. David Matthews writes
  23 February 2012
• Ebdon's 'nuclear option' could be challenged
  Les Ebdon could face a legal challenge from universities if he tries to use the "nuclear option" of capping their tuition fees because they are failing to recruit enough students from poor backgrounds.
  23 February 2012
• Arts and humanities offer Hobson's choice
  Budget-driven cuts mean language studies are now unavailable in some regions. Simon Baker reports
  23 February 2012
• Reforms may make master's degrees unviable
  Debts of £65,000 seen as 'huge disincentive' to further study in Stem subjects. Paul Jump writes
  23 February 2012
• Interest increases in issuing bonds to fund improvements
  Institutions seek competitive alternative to bank loans for facility upgrades, writes Simon Baker
  23 February 2012
• Brunel to offer a special sort of Self-assessment
  'The young have fewer preconceptions' - Will Self talks to Jack Grove about his new professorship
  23 February 2012
• Now everyone will know that Cornell means business
  Expanding into the Big Apple provides a platform for high-tech start-ups. John Morgan reports
  23 February 2012
• Think global or stay local? Finnish sector weighs its options
  Unease with internationalisation echoes growing concerns in other Nordic nations. Ed Dutton reports
  23 February 2012
• Off-script email leads to suit centred on bad handwriting
  Student claims lack of promised dyslexia support cost him a first-class degree. Jack Grove writes
  23 February 2012
• Let's take their words on that
  David Matthews reports on debate about whether claiming students' IP rights could halt plagiarism
  23 February 2012
• Early loan repayments a 'gift to the government'
  Students who repay their tuition fees early may simply be making an unnecessary "gift to the government", an economist has warned.
  23 February 2012
• Canadians feud over 'attack' on academic freedom
  A row about a redefinition of academic freedom has escalated in Canada, with the head of the representative body for academics condemning the document as "a full-scale attack on academic freedom like no other we have seen".
  23 February 2012
• 'Everyone loses' in the A-level waiting game
  Plans for students to apply for university after getting their A-level results have been strongly criticised by an admissions advice group.
  23 February 2012
• 'Dangerous' bird flu research available to all
  Two leading scientific journals are likely to publish in full two controversial papers detailing a new version of the bird flu virus that may be transmissible between humans despite a US federal advisory body warning of its potentially "catastrophic"...
  23 February 2012
• Odds and quads
  These striking wire-mesh sculptures of naked, falling figures hanging from the ceiling often attract attention and comment from students and visitors at the University of Sunderland's automotive engineering department.
  23 February 2012
• The week in higher education
  • Two teenagers ruffled feathers at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills by bringing a legal challenge against this year's tuition-fee hike. Lawyers for Callum Hurley, from Peterborough, and Katy Moore, from Brixton, South...
  23 February 2012
• News in brief
  Private facilities partnerships
  23 February 2012
• Campus round-up
  Queen Mary, University of London
  23 February 2012
• News in brief
  Germany
  23 February 2012