University awards more top grades
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The proportion of degrees awarded a first or 2:1 at Liverpool University jumped this year from 63% to 72%.
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Leading universities are taking students from more areas of the UK, a champion of wider access says.
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The University of California system is amassing Nobel Prizes at campuses once noted more for beer bashes and odd mascots than academic excellence.
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Students should be able to make their university applications after their A-level results, says an official report.
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Universities were encouraged yesterday to give preference to students from minority backgrounds in a scheme that could see working-class and ethnic minority applicants
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Creating A+ and A++ grades at A-level  would help private school pupils who apply to universities, a study says.
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Universities and businesses need more information to select the best candidates, the government has admitted.
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More top grades were awarded  for GCSEs and girls continue to out-perform boys.
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A survey by academics at the University of Bath, UK, has revealed that male scientists are good at research because they have the hormone levels of women and long index fingers.
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Pupils should be able to get into top universities by taking the new Diplomas instead of A-levels, says Schools Secretary Ed Balls.
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The University of Waterloo has bumped the University of Guelph out of first place and into second in Maclean&#39;s magazine&#39;s annual assessment of comprehensive Canadian universities.
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SOUTH Australia&#39;s students have shown improvement in an international science and mathematics study last held a decade ago, and defied a national trend.
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Unofficial league tables are increasingly influencing university choices, suggests research.
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Welsh students are outperforming the rest of the UK as they receive their A-level results.
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Increasing numbers of graduates has not reduced the financial advantages of getting a degree, says an international report.
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A phonics champion and university academics feature prominently in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
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PLYMOUTH, Ind., June 4  /PRNewswire/ -- "This just goes to show that our rankings truly reward high standards of work.