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If university fees rise, loans must keep pace

13.10.09
Professor Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London, recently rated one of the world's top four universities, has warned that parents may have to save from birth to pay future college fees... more

Students 'must be told how many lectures they get for £3,000 fees'

01.10.09
Universities will be forced to tell students how many lectures and classes they can expect amid fears that undergraduates are being cheated out of their £3,225 a year fees... more

Determined face of Kraft with a huge appetite for Cadbury’s

23.09.09
Irene Rosenfeld downplays City’s fears, and says buying confectionery favourite is ‘right step’ for US giant ... more

The madness of making your children mini Mozarts

20.08.09
London parents will go to any lengths to make sure their little Mozarts can play an instrument. Our reporter tells of her trials as a Music Mummy... more

What Mandelson thinks of Brown and Cameron

29.07.09
Peter Mandelson is prodding at an interactive plasma screen at the Visual Planet company, oohing and aahing at what advanced manufacturing can do for Britain. It's everything New Labour loves - cutting edge, meritocratic and not a recession-hit smokestack industry... more

Privatise top five UK universities to form Ivy League, says Imperial head

01.06.09
Britain's best universities should be privatised to form an elite US-style Ivy League, a leading higher-education figure said... more

Revealed: Oxford student who campaigned against Walcott

29.05.09
Oxford scholarship is revealed as a leading campaigner against the election of Derek Walcott as the university's professor of poetry... more

Now children are punished for going to good schools

07.04.09
News of the latest salvo in a strange war between parents and the Government comes from Durham University, which has turned down a boy from St Paul's School with four A grades at A-level... more

Yale fights to keep Van Gogh masterpiece

25.03.09
Yale University is taking legal action to retain a Van Gogh masterpiece... more

Facebook: the new town crier

27.01.09
It’s official: the social networking website is where you go to share your heartbreak... more

England or America?

26.01.09
Madonna and Guy Ritchie are at logger-heads over where Lourdes should go to school: here, or in America?... more

Barack Obama: President of cool

20.01.09
Poised and unflappable, Barack Obama has fast-tracked from also-ran to America’s top job in just seven years. Andrew Gilligan asks: how did he do it?... more

It’s far from quiet on the western front

12.01.09
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Yale feels the pinch as endowment dives

17.12.08
Finance: The endowment fund at President Bush's old university Yale has taken a 25%, $5.5 billion (£3.59 billion) hit from plunging markets over the past four months... more

Obama's new regime - it's too old school for my taste

03.12.08
There's a strange sense of political limbo here in America at the moment... more

Bankers drown their sorrows in Manhattan bars

30.09.08
Wall Street drinking dens were engulfed with panic and despair at US politicians as traders drowned their sorrows following the bail-out collapse... more

What's put a smile on the face of TV's grumpiest man?

10.09.08
After years of living a trans-Atlantic life which has done little for the depressive actor's mental state, not to mention his marriage, Laurie's family are moving to the US to be with him.... more

Educating Macca... Sir Paul awarded honorary music degree by Yale University

26.05.08
Sir Paul McCartney went back to school today as he received an honorary degree from one of America's top universities.... more

Vampire Weekend go for the jugular: Pop's quirkiest newcomers have plenty of bite

22.05.08
Since signing to London-based label XL, who found them via their MySpace page, Vampire Weekend have wasted no time building up a following. Their two UK tours to date have both sold out, while they are already pencilled in for a slew of summer festival appearances. The band have also been credited with rejuvenating the New York pop scene ... more

Eclectic musical feast

18.01.08
New York four-piece Vampire Weekend are risking their necks by daring to be different and so far it seems to be paying off.... more

Dance that takes no prisoners

02.07.07
Even if you see a lot of dance, and even if you've seen it before, William Forsythe's One Flat Thing, Reproduced comes as a howling, dazzling surprise.... more

Rap in a league of its own

16.04.07
Ivy League-educated rappers Naledge and Double O tell Rahul Verma why their music challenges the nihilism-obsessed genre.... more

Does betrayal destroy humanity?

12.02.07
Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, his second feature as director, is arguably too long and sometimes repetitious, but it remains intriguing throughout, says Derek Malcolm.... more

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