Boom time for private universities
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Browne's recommendations, together with the comprehensive spending review, will see a boom in private university provisionAfter the events of the past two weeks, few would cast Lord Browne of Madingley and the chancellor, George Osborne, in the role of fairy godmothers. But Browne's tuition fee review and Osborne's comprehensive spending review have granted higher education's small private sector... Read more...

Half of UK students 'fail to check bank statements for fraud'
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
But high percentage have strong awareness of the risks of providing personal information online, study findsAround half of UK students still do not bother to check their bank statements for signs of fraudulent activity, despite having a strong awareness of the risks of providing personal information online, according to a new study.The research, conducted by YouGov SixthSense and lifestyle... Read more...

Walking could protect brain against shrinking, US research says
Friday, 15 October 2010
Neurologists who monitored 300 volunteers over 13 years say walkers could be defending themselves against memory lossThe historian George Macaulay Trevelyan wrote in 1913 that he had two doctors: "My left leg and my right". Now a report appears to show that the simple medicine of putting one foot in front of another is a potential defence against dementia and Alzheimer's.Walking may protect the... Read more...

Higher education: Degrees of reality | Editorial
Friday, 15 October 2010
The Lib-Dems, who were in denial about higher education's financial problems at the election, have been forced to make a rapid U-turn to an uncomfortable realityThis is not a perfect world, Vince Cable lamented during his uncomfortable hour defending the Browne report on higher education funding in the House of Commons yesterday. Indeed it is not. That is why Labour set up the Browne review in... Read more...

Tuition fees: securing a future for elitism | Carole Leathwood
Friday, 15 October 2010
The success of universities like mine in widening access to the disadvantaged has been put at risk by the Browne reportAt last there were signs that things were beginning to change. Data published earlier this year by the Higher Education Funding Council for England showed that the proportion of young people from the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods going to university had increased... Read more...