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Daily Media Digest: Tuesday 7 February 2012

 

 

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Go Green Week 2012

Student Times The National Student Newspaper

Go Green Week is People & Planet's annual national week of action on climate change in schools, colleges and universities in partnership with NUS.

 

 

EMA replacement 'failing young poor students'

BBC News - 8 hours ago

Toni Pearce of the National Union of Students said the report was a damning indictment of the decision to scrap EMA, and the botched attempt to replace it.

 

 

Edinburgh applications buck national downward trend

The Student - 10 hours ago

The National Union of Students' (NUS) president Liam Burns attributed this to financial worries resulting from the fee reforms, telling the BBC that, ...

 

 

UniLad: When 'banter' becomes dangerous?

LSMedia - 1 day ago

The NUS Hidden Marks report found that 60% of sexual assaults are perpetrated by other students. All of this should make all students think about how they ...

 

 

Further and Higher Education:

 

BIS Committee may have blocked Les Ebdon from Offa job

Times Higher Education - 16 hours ago

News about whether Professor Ebdon, the vice-chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire and chair of million+, had been approved by the Business, ...

Will 'Two Brains' Willetts pay the price in Cabinet reshuffle?

Daily Mail - 7 hours ago

Education Secretary Michael Gove wants his department to take back control of higher education policy, which would make Willetts redundant.

Bridgwater College holds higher education careers convention

Bridgwater Mercury - 16 hours ago

Bridgwater College's land-based studies area held its first ever higher education careers convention last week. The event was attended by over 30 industry ...

Cambridge must come clean on the £3.7 million it has received from ...

Telegraph.co.uk (blog) - 1 hour ago

In these cash-strapped times for higher education in Britain, it is easy to think we should be cheering such developments. But in this case there is cause ...

Postgraduate education to be addressed by independent commission

Times Higher Education - 2 days ago

By Jack Grove Set up by the Higher Education Commission, which includes figures from politics, business and the education sector, the inquiry will examine ...

Winners and losers as universities report student application numbers

This is Cornwall - 1 day ago

Westcountry universities and colleges are facing mixed fortunes as potential students opt out of Higher Education, the Western Morning News has learned.

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