# The week in Higher Education (Week 37)

| [Universities have allowed themselves to become the casual **...**](http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article4748567.ece)  Times Online - UK  That country, she said, invested 2.9% of its national product in **higher education**, compared with Britain’s paltry 1.1%. Universities therefore had to stop **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/simon_jenkins/article4748567.ece) |
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| [ Higher, busier, costlier ... a business motto for 2012](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article4748041.ece)  Times Online - UK  Although if you are working in high-tech medical research, London has some of the finest academic establishments in the world (London’s **higher education** **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/entrepreneur/article4748041.ece) |
| [ Centre for **Higher Education** Practice](http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2008/4009.html)  University of Ulster Online - Coleraine,UK  Professor Desmond Hunter has been seconded to Staff Development for up to a three year period to head up a pedagogic support unit and to provide academic **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2008/4009.html) |
| [ Troubled university's merger plan](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/7610975.stm)  BBC News - UK  A troubled university is in talks with other **higher education** institutions about a possible merger. Lampeter university in Ceredigion, the oldest in Wales **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/7610975.stm) |
| [ UK slipping down graduate league](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7612806.stm)  BBC News - UK  Getting half of all young people to enter **higher education** would, so we were told, devalue university degrees. Graduates would find it difficult to get jobs **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7612806.stm) |
| [ Bradford students rack up £80 million of debt](http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/3670117.Bradford_students_rack_up___80_million_of_debt/)  Bradford Telegraph Argus - Bradford,England,UK  But Bill Rammell, Minister of State for **Higher Education**, said: “I want people to aim for university confident that they’ll have the help they need to fund **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/3670117.Bradford_students_rack_up___80_million_of_debt/) |
| [ Students praise course teaching](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7608617.stm)  BBC News - UK  But a spokesman for the **Higher Education** Funding Council for England (Hefce) said the Kingston matter was a "very specific case". "It \[the National Student **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7608617.stm) |
| [ Minister wants to 'lower threshold for complaints' against **...**](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/minister-wants-to-lower-threshold-for-complaints-against-universities-927098.html)  Independent - London,England,UK  John Denham, the Universities Secretary, said yesterday that he wanted the Quality Assurance Agency, which monitors **higher education** standards, **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/minister-wants-to-lower-threshold-for-complaints-against-universities-927098.html) |
| [ How to Advertise](http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp?typeCode=123&pubCode=1&navcode=102)  times higher education - London,England,UK  The Times **Higher Education** Supplement has been at the heart of the UK's **higher education** sector for over 36 years. During this time it has built a solid **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/hybrid.asp%3FtypeCode%3D123%26pubCode%3D1%26navcode%3D102) |
| [ Students more satisfied than ever before](http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=403497&c=1)  times higher education - London,England,UK  A total of 149 **higher education** institutions from across the UK took part in the survey, with almost 210000 students taking part. **...**  [ See all stories on this topic](http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ncl=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp%3Fsectioncode%3D26%26storycode%3D403497%26c%3D1) |