Tuition fees could pay a political price
Higher education policy could easily be drawn into the deal-making and compromises that are routine in hung parliaments, says Nick Pearce?
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The Russell Group’s power over English education must be wielded more wisely
Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane
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Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds
Tuition fees rank marginally above animal rights on list of voting priorities?– but young people assign higher importance
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Academic recognition for public policy work is slowly gathering pace
To tackle the challenge of implementing evidence-based policy, change is also needed in the university sector, says Gavin Costigan
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University financial health check 2017: future prospects?
UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to...
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Labour should set science budget ‘for full Parliament’
A Labour government should set a science and research budget for the entire Parliament, and give universities a bigger role in driving local growth.
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Ed Balls interview: ‘When the dust settles, people see the truth’
Gordon Brown’s former right-hand man talks to John Morgan about his return to Harvard, Labour’s higher education ‘failure’ and a political comeback
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Campus close-up: ‘Authoritative voice’ set to project on the world stage
UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity – and dispel a few myths, too
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Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma, by Jason Whitesel
Sally R. Munt lauds an ethnographic study of men who are ‘out’ about their weight
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University schools ‘told to improve’
A string of universities sponsoring school academies have been told to raise their games in light of poor standards.?
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Labour launches ‘technical degrees’ policy
The Labour Party will introduce new “technical degrees” if it is elected at next May’s general election.
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Private colleges better value over universities’ ‘ridiculously long vacations’, former minister says
For-profit higher education providers could “really strike a chord” with students worried about the value for money of traditional ?9,000-a-year degrees with “ridiculous” long vacations, according to...
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Oxford teaching and the ?16K question
How does the university calculate the real cost of undergraduate education?
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Shakespeare by numbers: my quest to see every single play
Emma Rees is 34 down, four to go in a bid to see the Bard’s entire canon on stage
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MP flags Tories' 'huge concern' over Offa head
A Tory MP has warned that there is opposition on his party’s front bench to Les Ebdon, following criticism of his comments on the “snobbery” surrounding university education.