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• By the whiskeriest of whiskers, Cambridge academics have failed to declare a vote of no confidence in the universities minister, David Willetts. Members of Cambridge University's governing body the Regent House backed a motion condemning the government's higher education policies by 681 votes yesterday - but exactly the same number voted against.

• The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has refused an official "impact assessment", which sets the cost to Britain 's economy of its curbs on foreign students with up to ? 3.6 billion to take over. \ May has dismissed her own department's official analysis of the effects of visa policy, the migration advisory committee instead of a "better assessment and better assess the true picture" has asked for.

• What 's going on in the Independent Schools Council, the body which speaks for private schools? It 's to say just lost a second chief exec in three years, let alone its chairman. Liz Lightfoot studied.

• Students are to fight for seats on the Oxbridge of catering courses. Louise Tickle looks they tested through their culinary paces.

• Hesa ??figures show only 62% of graduates in recent years been working for months after they graduate. Don 't universities have a duty to ensure that their students use?

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