University chiefs get 7.9% rises
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Average UK university chiefs' salaries rose 7.9% last year - against 3% for academics after industrial action.
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M&S's chief executive Stuart Rose received Â£7.8m in salary and bonuses last year, up 68% on a year ago.
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Chief executives at U.S. companies  that shipped jobs overseas won a 46 percent pay hike last year,  more than five times the average CEO raise, while ordinary  workers' paychecks barely budged, a study showed on Tuesday.
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Some students face increased tuition fees of more than Â£7,000 because of funding cuts, universities warn.
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The number of students who applied for university courses in England has risen by over 7%,  figures show.
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The number of students applying for UK universities rises 6%, despite the new top-up fees in England.
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By JUSTIN POPE The Associated Press Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fundraising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in an all-time high of $28 billion -- a 9.4 percent jump from the year before.
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A Â£7.5m scheme will match private donations to universities with government money.
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The latest endowment figures from NACUBO, a college business officers' group, highlight the growing prosperity but also the stratification among elite universities
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A vanguard group of universities is giving corporations greater access to ivory-tower laboratories â for a price.
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New facilities and competition for top professors have costs soaring vastly higher than inflation.
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STUDENTS face record competition for university places this autumn, with thousands more applicants scrambling to beat the rise in tuition fees, new figures revealed yesterday.
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* Increases of 6 to 7 percent in premiums -- and more in small firms.
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Yale University, flush with cash from strong investment returns, said on Monday it would spend roughly 37 percent more of its own money on financial aid for students and scientific research in 2008-2009.
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The push-and-pull over the 2009 federal pay raise is underway.
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Pay increases for Britain's top bosses has risen, a survey by the consultancy firm Deloitte finds.
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Students who volunteer and those studying part-time while working could get extra, the chancellor says.