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On a wing and a prayer: King's College has now acquired the east wing of Somerset House

King's College set to expand into Somerset House

King's College London is celebrating a triumph of sorts. After 180 years of coveting the East wing of Somerset House, and after many false dawns, it has finally got its hands on it. The men from the Inland Revenue who occupied the lovely neo-classical building have left, and the college is to expand, acquiring an architectural gem and more space.

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Diary Of A Third Year: 'Exams are a relic of a bygone age and must be abolished'

Thursday, 4 February 2010

The exam season has nearly ended. The crowds in the library are thinning and there are fewer groups of smokers outside exam halls. For me, though, the exam season has been a breeze – mainly because I haven't had any.

Going straight: The ex-convict signing up other prisoners for degrees

Thursday, 28 January 2010

An amazing two-thirds of inmates emerge from jail to reoffend but an experiment in Buckinghamshire shows what happens when you offer them higher education. Lucy Hodges goes inside to see for herself

Leading Article: Calling a spade a spade

Thursday, 28 January 2010

It is rather refreshing to have David Lammy, the Higher Education minister, speak his mind about universities and the cutbacks. Higher education establishments certainly cannot complain that ministers are not coming clean with them. Writing in the magazine Policy Review, Mr Lammy said it would be a good few years before universities could expect to see any really significant increase in public funding. Therefore they could either contract or try to drum up funds from other sources by offering bespoke teaching to industry or setting up campuses abroad.

Sir David Melville: We need the best tutors to prepare future workers

Thursday, 28 January 2010

The education and skills system is facing up to the fact that the UK's mountainous budget deficit will lead inexorably to major funding cuts. The relative protection of schools means that reductions will impact chiefly on further and higher education and the intermediary bodies in the skills system. So, what does this mean?

Begin the new year on a positive note by enrolling in January or February

Thursday, 28 January 2010

There are many reasons for beginning a university course in the new year, such as deciding to stay in education too late to apply through UCAS or seeking a fresh start after redundancy.

Peter Crisp: Universities must start having private thoughts

Thursday, 21 January 2010

The uncharitable might observe that British universities are the NHS of the education sector: publicly funded, bureaucratic, world renowned for their research, managed by committee and not customer driven.

Diary Of A Third Year: Ski trips to the Alps are a mixture of immaturity and lewdness

Thursday, 21 January 2010

It's 12.30am at Dover ferry port. Covered in face paint, a student from Manchester University is being held with his arms behind his back, as another tries to pull his trousers down. Two policemen appear. Seeing the police, one lets go, while the other continues to pull at his friend's pants. A policeman coughs. The trouser-puller turns, sees them and makes a swift exit. Welcome to the world of university ski trips.

Leading Article: Are British universities crying wolf over budget cuts?

Thursday, 21 January 2010

The Russell Group's warning that British universities risk being brought to their knees by cuts of almost £200m over the next three years may be over the top. This is a reduction of around 12 per cent and other areas of public expenditure will have to suffer this kind of pain as well in order to reduce the public debt. Higher education is not being singled out – and it has, as anyone who has visited a university recently knows, seen amazing expansion. New buildings, new labs, swanky halls of residence have sprouted all over England. University income is at record levels. The cuts are expected to fall mainly on capital projects. That is regrettable but it is not the end of the world. It is unlikely to mean that our universities fall from gold to bronze standard and it is unlikely to affect our ability to recover from the recession.

The LSE is getting back to its social science roots

Thursday, 21 January 2010

Britain's social-science powerhouse has drafted in its biggest names to teach undergraduates about the major issues facing today's world

Bullying in Universities: It exists

Friday, 15 January 2010

We all know bullying occurs in children’s playgrounds, inside and outside of secondary schools and sometimes even in the adult workplace, but what about University?

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