Put the money into grants for universities and entrepreneurs to create and implement innovation.
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As companies have become customer-centric, the same goes for universities and professors who are becoming student-centric.
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Cutbacks in funding for universities, research institutes and schools remain a political tinder box.
No need to wait for universities to churn out Data Scientists in his opinion.
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Obvious enough, perhaps, but John Denham, the secretary of state for universities, said he profoundly disagreed.
One solution is for universities to take more foreign students, who pay full fees.
Postgraduate courses have become an important source of income for universities, particularly from overseas students.
This is preposterous, since overall government support for universities has fallen precipitously in the last two decades.
Mr Gove wants to shake up A-levels in England and for universities to be closely involved with this.
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And so trying to find creative ways for universities to do more with less is going to be important.
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The Scottish Funding Council is to announce its budget for universities in March.
Since the start of the recession at least 32 states have reduced money for universities or raised student fees.
The bottom line, though, is that while online education poses a challenge for universities, they will ultimately improve them.
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Nothing is more important to television and other revenue streams for universities than creating a winning and distinctive brand.
Others have suggested that online teaching represents a new funding model for universities.
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For universities competing to attract top students, it's no longer enough to have a glossy brochure and a sleek website.
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That may prove unwise: a recent online poll found that 79% of Quebeckers oppose raising income taxes to pay for universities.
She called for universities to update their codes of practice on visiting speakers and make sure they also applied to student unions.
Routledge's are positively dull perhaps because, as a publisher for universities rather than a university publisher, it is defensive about looking too commercial.
Writing programmes are highly profitable for universities, he argues: hence their growth.
The number of foreign students has increased in part because foreigners pay more than locals, increasing the incentive for universities to recruit abroad.
He said the challenge would be for universities which wanted to introduce higher fees to re-cycle the income to create bursaries for poorer students.
It would seem to be an overreach for universities to be adding costly real estate at a time when their customers are struggling financially.
Universities UK, the representative body for universities, welcomed the extra places.
She said there was support for the idea of universities being involved with the design of A-levels - "but less support for universities endorsing each A-level".
We never thought it was the crime of the century for universities to get a cut of loan revenue when they recommended particular lenders to students.
Last week the Prime Minister visited India, partly to drum up business for universities, and stressed there was no cap on the number of genuine foreign students.
Earlier Supreme Court rulings have upheld the right for universities to consider race as one of many factors in the admissions process - although quotas are forbidden.
There is more money for universities but colleges are unhappy.
But David Willetts, who is Conservative MP for Havant, and the cabinet minister for Universities and Science, said that was the wrong way to approach the devolution debate.
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