he true cost of a university degree will rocket to up to £100,000 (US$161,000), writes Paul Gallagher for The Independent. Thousands of current students will end up paying that amount in the course of their careers because of interest charges and other fees – several times the £27,000 or £36,000 in fees that most three- and four-year courses charge. (...) - University World News, The Independent16 December 2012 Issue No:252
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La commissaire européenne pour l'Education, la Culture, le Multilinguisme et la Jeunesse, Androulla Vassiliou, exhortera les institutions françaises d'enseignement supérieur de participer au classement des universités (U-Multirank), le nouveau système de classement des universités soutenu par l'UE, lors de sa visite à Paris les 18-19 mars. (...) - Commission Européenne Education & Formation, 15/03/2013 Delete the scoop?
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En marge de son lancement les 30 et 31 janvier dernier à Dublin, le futur classement européen des universités a essuyé quelques critiques de la part des acteurs européens de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche. (...) -EducPros, Olivier Monod, le 04.02.2013 Delete the scoop?
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Research institutions opt out of European Union's rankings scheme. Members of the League of European Research Universities (LERU) do not plan to support the U-Multirank university ranking system launched last month by the European Union (see Nature 494, 273; 2013). LERU, which is based in Leuven, Belgium, and represents 21 universities across the continent, objects to what it calls a lack of reliable and objectively verifiable data in U-Multirank, problems in comparing institutions between countries, the temptation for universities to change policies or practices to improve their rankings and the burden on universities to collect data, says Kurt Deketelaere, secretary-general of the league. He says that such problems plague all existing university ranking systems, and notes that LERU pulled out of a U-Multirank advisory group in 2010 because its concerns were not addressed. “Since then, we have not seen any evidence of a substantive change of course which could lead us to revisit that decision,” says Deketelaere. Individual member universities can still participate in the programme if they choose, he says, but he notes that none has opted to join so far. - 
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Nature's description of the situation is objective: LERU was part of the advisory group of U-Multirank but recanted. From my (U-Multirank team) perspective, there must have been an commnication problem, because I think my colleagues did try to get the best (reliable, valid and wherever possible verified) data base for it, and tried to communicate that with participants and advisory group. How to get back to better relations between LERU and U-Multirank? Delete the scoop?
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A new university ranking system, U-Multirank, was officially launched by the European Union (EU) in Dublin on Wednesday, bringing a new and broader approach to the assessment of universities throughout the world.(...) - University World News, by Alan Osborn, 01 February 2013, Issue No:257 Delete the scoop?
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