Labour pressed to reveal plans on student numbers
Labour has been urged to say whether or not it would reintroduce caps on undergraduate numbers after unveiling its pledge to lower fees to £6,000.
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Bedfordshire cleared of giving Saudi students preferential treatment
QAA report followed claims university had bent rules to allow students sponsored by Saudi government extra resits
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Liam Byrne: Why fees should be £6K
As Ed Miliband announces Labour’s policy on university tuition fees, the shadow universities minister sets out his party’s plans for higher education
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Miliband announces £6K tuition fees pledge
Ed Miliband has pledged that a Labour government would lower fees to £6,000 and raise maintenance grants by £400
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One in four students uses social media to contact university staff
More than a quarter of university students now use social media to contact their lecturers
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Proportion of top BTEC students doubles: Hefce report
Students taking BTEC vocational qualifications are more than twice as likely to score top marks as they were seven years earlier, says a new study.
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Video: student builds Large Hadron Collider...from Lego
University of Liverpool PhD student wants models to be manufactured by the company
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THE podcast: 26 February - 4 March 2015 issue review
Download the podcastChallenging access targets for selective universities, reform of the research funding formula and the review of the research councils being led by Sir Paul Nurse all feature in...
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26 February 2015
Disaster recovery - How campus communities cope with calamity
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World in brief - 26 February 2015
Republic of IrelandEuropean cash aids expansive thinkingThe National University of Ireland, Maynooth has announced a €150 million (£111 million) investment in new facilities, with half the funding...
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Derek Pugh, 1930-2015
One of the world’s leading experts on organisational psychology, known for representing how organisations work with “detail, breadth and rigour”, has died
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Q&A with Iain Simons
We speak to a principal lecturer at Nottingham Trent University who is also the director of the GameCity festival and co-director of the National Videogame Arcade
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Grant winners - 26 February 2015
Arts and Humanities Research CouncilLeadership FellowshipsAward winner: Gleider HernándezInstitution: Durham UniversityValue: £177,882Constructing authority in international lawAward winner: Rory...
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News in brief - 26 February 2015
International studentsChina risingThe number of Chinese students enrolling on full-time taught master’s courses in England has grown to all but match the number of home students, and has resulted in...
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On song with research
Although it is possible to have a residual sympathy for David Oldfield’s assertion that lecturers in the arts and humanities spend too much time researching rather than teaching (“You’re here to...