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A nurse shark

Oxford black-tie ball's plans to display live shark cancelled

Oxford students' bright idea to have a shark tank at their £110-per-head ball has been stopped by their college principal

Bath student jailed over professor bribe

A failing student who offered his University of Bath professor £5,000 in cash in a bid to pass his degree has been jailed for 12 months.

Self-empowerment is the best way to defeat racism in academia

A quick look at the stats will show that racial discrimination still exists in academia. Deborah Gabriel, the founder of Black British Academics, explains what we need to do to challenge the status quo

A crowd of supporters gathers outside Brighton Magistrates' Court

Occupy Sussex students plead not guilty

Four students pleaded not guilty today at Brighton Magistrates Court to charges related to protests that took place at the University of Sussex up to three weeks ago.

A conference for BME academics at University of the Arts London organised by GEMS (Group for the Equality of Minority Ethnic Staff) in 2012

Race discrimination in academia 'has not improved' over past 20 years

Racism remains as prevalent now in UK academia as it was two decades ago, according to a major new report.

Talking shop: Dickson Poon, owns Harvey Nichols and is the law school’s benefactor

David Caron: 'I want King's College London to be the Harvey Nichols of law schools'

A big donation from the luxury-goods businessman Dickson Poon means a new name and a bright future for law at King's College London. Its incoming dean tells Richard Garner his plans

The cafe occupied on Tuesday

Occupy Sussex defies injunction to continue cuts protest

Students and staff banned from protesting at the University of Sussex defied the injunction and occupied a campus café yesterday.

Cambridge University's Trinity College

Oxbridge hacker pleads guilty

Lewys Martin, 21, was charged last November for attempting to cause disruption to the public-facing websites of Cambridge University, Oxford University and Kent Police.

Toni Pearce: she flunked her exams – but fought her way to the top to become President of the NUS

Toni Pearce tells Richard Garner how her background will help her fight for students

John Sweeney, who has exposed human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, accompanied students from the London School of Economics, where his wife lectures

Panorama was worth risking lives for, says BBC chief: Programme by John Sweeney based on secret footage taken on university field trip to North Korea

A senior BBC executive tonight claimed the corporation was justified in putting the lives of students at risk by sending an undercover reporting team with them on a trip to North Korea.

The University of South Wales

New university in Wales opens for 33,000 students

The University of South Wales merges Glamorgan and Newport to become the sixth-largest higher education institute in the country

Edinburgh University were given £1m by software entrepreneur Dame Stephanie Shirley, for its research into autism

Donations to universities hit record high

Charitable gifts soar to £774m as universities adopt US-style approach to fund-raising

The slump in applications from boys runs through all social strata

Higher university tuition fees 'putting off working-class boys'

Boys are more likely to shun university as a result of the rise in tuition fees, according to new research.

Toni Pearce elected NUS president: Students elect first leader not to have been to university

Student leaders have elected the first ever president of their union not to have been to university.

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