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Diary Of A Third Year: Plagiarists and idlers - beware the power of the internet

Essays are the staple academic diet of most students. Their role in academic life hasn't changed in 50 years, but the way students write them certainly has.

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Leading Article: Bursary message

Thursday, 3 December 2009

We have an incredibly complicated system of financial help for students since the introduction of top-up fees, as the OFFA survey demonstrates. Students should be using information about bursaries to make up their minds which university to attend, but they are not, according to the evidence. Higher education institutions will clearly have to make a much more determined effort to get their messages across. They should also look at the impact their arrangements are having on student choice.

Grand offer: Middlesex University gives out five awards of £10,000 a year

Study reveals lack of awareness over university bursaries and scholarships

Thursday, 3 December 2009

It is amazing but true that one quarter of students and parents have not heard of the bursaries that each university has to provide to students in need. So, three years after the controversial top-up fees were introduced, along with a complicated paraphernalia of loans and scholarships, thousands of students don't have the information they need to choose the institution that is best for them.

IF YOU'RE NOT IN CALIFORNIA, HOW DO YOU KNOW IF IT EXISTS? (GEOGRAPHY, OXFORD)

Are you clever enough for Oxbridge?

Tuesday, 1 December 2009

As would-be students prepare for pre-Christmas entrance interviews, John Farndon offers a cribsheet on those famously fiendish questions

Andrew Oswald: REF should stay out of the game

Thursday, 26 November 2009

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Scandal of the students who never sat exams

Thursday, 26 November 2009

London Metropolitan University has to repay an unprecedented £36.5m because of poor record-keeping. How many other institutions are in the same boat, asks Lucy Hodges

Leading Article: Lessons to learn

Thursday, 26 November 2009

London Metropolitan University's governors must conclude from Sir David Melville's report (see page 5) that they should have built in mechanisms to ensure they were properly informed. As it was, they didn't know what was going on.

Stannard's use of video technology to mark work has proved popular with students

Time to wave goodbye to old-fashioned lecture notes

Thursday, 19 November 2009

When a lecturer made a video of himself marking essays, the world of academia realised he was on to something.

Leading Article: Oxbridge rules

Thursday, 19 November 2009

We should not be surprised that Oxford and Cambridge universities are so superior when compared to all others, including the highly-rated LSE, Imperial and UCL.

Nurses take part in kidney transplant surgery at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham.

Meet the new nurses on £54,000

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Why has the idea that nurses should be better qualified sparked such a fierce debate?

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