Funding review: ‘radical change needed’ to deliver fair system
Students unlikely to be won over by tweaks to current funding arrangements, says sector leader
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Differential tuition fees are not the answer
Making arts and humanities degrees cheaper than science courses would be 'cultural heresy' and 'economic barbarism', argues the University of Hertfordshire's vice-chancellor Quintin McKellar
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Justine Greening backs calls for graduate tax in England
Making all graduates contribute for 30 years could allow cost of higher education to be 'spread more thinly', says former education secretary
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Please don't tinker with tuition fees Mrs May
Sheffield Hallam University's vice-chancellor Chris Husbands explains why cutting tuition fees would harm social mobility and why variable fees are also a bad idea
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Research funders urged to follow NSF lead on harassment
National Science Foundation requires universities to inform them if staff members receiving grant funding face sexual harassment allegations
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Putting a prison at the heart of a university campus
Project at Canterbury Christ Church aims to explore building’s history and create new heritage centre
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Funding review: how much might it cost and who might gain most?
London Economics modelling suggests that higher earners would be the primary beneficiaries of many potential reforms
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May: leaving poorest with largest debts 'hampers widening access'
Prime minister to express concern that England ‘has one of the most expensive systems of university tuition in the world’
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Four ways for Theresa May to fix student loans
Ahead of the prime minister’s speech on reforming university funding, Charles B. W. Prince suggests four routes to improving student finance
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Getting the most from professional internships during your doctorate
Getting professional experience puts postgraduates in situations that they are unlikely to have faced in their university life, says Alfredo Cumerma
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Hinds aiming to deliver variable fees on eve of funding review
Damian Hinds says he would like to see degree ‘options available which have different costs’
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English funding review must reconsider interest rates, say MPs
Treasury Committee says government has failed to justify why student loan interest rates should exceed those prevailing in the market
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Free Speech Rankings: misleading, ill-informed and worryingly influential
The evidence used to compile Spiked Online’s Free Speech Rankings is not to be trusted, says Carl Thompson
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‘Grand challenges’ reshape universities’ research agendas
Twenty North American institutions using ‘moon shots’ to help focus and attract support for their scientific endeavours
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THE podcast: Asia Universities Summit 2018 review
Hear the Times Higher Education team and university leaders talk about the hot topics discussed at the 2018 Asia Universities Summit