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Jack Grove covers research and science policy for 探花视频, as well as on issues relating to PhD, postdoctoral and early career researchers. He has a BA in English from the University of Bristol, and previously worked on newspapers including the Cambridge News and the Peterborough Evening Telegraph.
Removing international students from official immigration figures would reduce government statistics to 鈥渘onsense鈥, the head of a migration pressure group has claimed.
Students are taking part in a national walkout at campuses across the UK today as part of a 鈥渨eek of action鈥 calling on the government and universities to 鈥渃ome clean鈥 on their plans for higher education.
The maximum tuition fees that can be charged by universities in England are to be frozen at 拢9,000 for the 2013-14 academic year, the government has announced.
The fifth biennial Sodexo-探花视频 University Lifestyle Survey is the last to quiz students under the lower tuition fees regime - and it reveals some telling views on the changing nature of the sector. Worries about debt have fallen as the current cohort realise what a comparatively good deal they have, yet it is clear that the dire state of the economy is affecting lifestyle choices. However some things - such as the paltry time spent in the library - never change. Jack Grove reports
Independent candidates have triumphed in the University and College Union elections by snapping up almost three-quarters of the contested places on its national executive committee.
