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The education secretary’s attacks on the academy are a smokescreen for the damage caused by his radical policies, argues Martin McQuillan
Just four European countries spend less as a proportion of national income
IPPR report offers stark warning over £6,000 plans
Convention for Higher Education’s rallying cry against coalition’s university reforms
The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.
Labour’s shadow business secretary is “open” to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been “taken hostage by the Home Office” under the coalition.
The Home Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review
Business secretary will argue against sector cuts and for extra investment
Mayor confident in capital’s academic brand values
The academy must repel UKIP’s charges, argues Christopher Phelps
Minister and BIS take close interest in study with enormous policy implications
Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government’s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.
A student Islamic society has apologised after a video was posted on its Facebook site claiming the killing of a soldier in Woolwich was a government hoax.
Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would “pose a significant threat to the UK’s leading position” in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.
Tuition fees major concern for schoolchildren, Sutton Trust discovers
G. R. Evans’ rallying cry: scholars, do the spadework to defend the sector
Russell Group’s latest members have agreed to stump up £500,000 each
Plans to cut student support may be undermined by court ruling
When anthropologists pointed out that cultural factors impeded tropical disease treatment campaigns, some fellow scientists reacted with outrage
Vince Cable has said any sense of “triumph” over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is “absurd”, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement
Call to put differences aside, ahead of UCU Congress in Brighton
Stay-at-home students who attend a local university should be eligible for cut-price tuition fees of £5,000 a year, according to an influential commission of higher education experts
The University of Greenwich has launched an investigation into whether there has been extremism on its campuses after confirming that one of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier studied at the institution
Net migration to the UK has fallen again mainly thanks to a 23 per cent drop in the number of students coming to the country to study.
Lowering tuition fees to £6,000 – a policy put forward by Labour - could cost the Treasury the same as the current £9,000 set-up, a study has claimed.
Brighton event aims to form charter of core university values
Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say
Alastair Bonnett visits Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, a cooperative, free university attempting to build a different kind of knowledge economy
Less than 10 years since their introduction, tuition fees will soon disappear from the country. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports
£9,000 limit poses threat to quality and income, conference hears
A new website has been launched to help universities tackle violent extremism and radicalisation on campus.
A campaign has been launched to promote part-time study following the dramatic fall in the number of such students choosing to enter higher education.
Universities minister David Willetts has defended the student finance system against criticisms that it is unsustainable and will not bring in the amount of money required to fund the sector long term.
Nick Hillman says coalition approach to finance may shape global academy
Body defends science and social mobility funds from spending review
David Willetts has said the estimated public cost of the new student loans system “could rise further”, a factor that critics fear could leads to cuts elsewhere in the higher education budget and the redesign of the student support system.
Comedian Johnny Vegas has mounted a heart-felt defence of art school, claiming that the new fees regime will dissuade students from deprived backgrounds studying for creative degrees to the detriment of society.
Research reveals conservative fears of left-wing influence are unfounded
Obama defends discipline from Republican attacks
Embattled French leader’s attempts to fix university sector’s problems have met with a mixed response
Bahram Bekhradnia on funding chiefs’ hunt for a new leader
David Willetts and Vince Cable appear to prefer visiting Russell Group to post-92s, writes John Morgan
Universities UK has moved to head off any prospect that the new immigration bill, announced today in the Queen’s Speech, might herald a crackdown on the use of public services by overseas university students.
Planned reforms of higher education in Ireland have come under fire in a speech by the outgoing president of the sector’s main union.
John Elmes investigates the growth in university-sponsored academies
Leader sought to guide Hefce through period of upheaval
Nicola Dandridge says mixed messages on immigration aid competitor nations’ university sectors
Australian approach offers lessons for UK, forum hears
The rest of the world thinks so, says Hefce funding chief
Under the reign of the free-market icon, state power over universities increased. Vernon Bogdanor assesses Thatcher’s legacy to education
Toby Miller recalls a paralysing encounter with terror in the skies and asks: in my shoes, would you have reacted differently?
The LSE’s complaints about being kept in the dark about undercover reporting in North Korea are peevish, Tim Luckhurst argues
Geraldine Van Bueren says international law could help opponents of rising tuition costs in their battle
Sheila Rowbotham on a crisp portrait of a restless thinker who was neither infallible nor prophetic
The proportion of young people accessing higher education hit a record high of 49 per cent as students scrambled to avoid last year’s tuition fee hikes, a new study says.
