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20 décembre 2015

Campaign to stop David Starkey being the face of Cambridge was not censorship

By Alex da Costa. A Telegraph column recently opined that “our brightest students should be ashamed of their intolerance” and demanded to know why “a lecturer at one of our most exalted universities [is] shutting down free speech?” More...

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20 décembre 2015

Here’s how much public funding for university students varies across the UK

By David Eiser. An English student, a Scottish student, a Welsh student and a Northern Irish student walk into a bar. Who should buy the round? Across the four territories of the UK, different types and levels of grant and loan are available to students. This means that students from some parts of the UK are getting more support from their devolved government than others. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Radicalisation on campus: why new counter-terror duties for universities will not work

By Chris Allen. The government’s attempts to prevent university students from being drawn into violent extremism and terrorism could backfire. From July 1, there will be new duties placed on universities following changes to the government’s PREVENT programme in the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act 2015. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Teachers on the frontline against terror: what should schools do about radicalisation?

By Matthew Francis. Schools will have a legal duty to prevent their pupils being drawn into terrorism from July 1, when new counter-terrorism guidelines come into force. In many ways this is nothing new – schools are increasingly being seen as a key battleground against terrorism. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Which countries punch above their weight in education rankings?

By Daniel Caro and Jenny Lenkeit. Rankings of countries based on how well their students perform in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) always receive a great deal of attention from the media and politicians. But PISA rankings, produced by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, are limited when it comes to evaluating the quality of education systems and their efforts to improve children’s lives. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Funneling funds to elite universities won’t guarantee world ranking success

By Vikki Boliver and Matthew David. Asian universities occupied the top six spots in the latest ranking of the top 50 universities under 50-years-old. As in previous years, Asia made a particularly strong showing on the list, published by QS World University Rankings, with 16 of the region’s universities making the cut. More...

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20 décembre 2015

As Britain plans to regulate madrasas, let’s understand their history

By Farid Panjwani. Words with simple meanings sometimes conceal complicated and contested histories. Madrasa is just such a word. Literally, it means a place where teaching and learning takes place. Yet, even a cursory look at the history of the term reveals fascinating tales of contests over knowledge and religious authority as well as the variety of ways in which it is used. More...

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20 décembre 2015

How the Teaching Excellence Framework will work

By Andrew Gunn. The paper, Fulfilling our Potential: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice, sets out how those universities which provide excellent teaching, and give the best employment prospects to their graduates, will be able to raise their fees higher than the current maximum of £9,000, in line with inflation. More...

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20 décembre 2015

Explainer: new-look regulation on cards for higher education

By Roger King. Universities in the UK face a shakeup in the way they are regulated if proposals set out by the government in a new green paper go ahead as planned. More...

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20 décembre 2015

The value universities add to society

By Steve Fuller. Some pointed questions have been asked of universities about what value they add to the society that funds them. Would society suffer from lower levels of public expenditure in universities – and what would make greater public expenditure worthwhile. More...

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