Labour’s warning to v-cs critical of £6K fees plan
UUK letter disparaging policy ‘compromises ability to influence party’s thinking’
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Academic estimates ‘real’ cost of REF exceeds £1bn
Sector challenged to share data on REF costs and come up with less ‘disingenuous’ figure than official estimates
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Visa crackdown affected ‘more than 12,000’ international students
NUS survey reveals extent of the fallout after the Home Office ended visa sponsorship at 65 private colleges
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SLC pays out £200m too much in grants
FoI request finds that £132m is still outstanding despite a fall in total overpayments
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Research: the wrong priority for the arts and humanities?
Public funding in these subjects would be better spent on teaching, argues David Oldfield
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The countries employing young graduates
The employment rate among young people graduating in the UK is higher than that of the US, ߣߣƵ and Japan, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Andrew Thomson, 1936-2014
One of the leading figures in post-war British management education has died
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Q&A with Stephen Sparks
We speak to a geologist whose work on volcanic eruptions has earned him the equivalent of a Nobel prize for the earth sciences
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Grant winners - 12 February 2015
National Institute for Health ResearchHealth Services and Delivery Research ProgrammeAward winner: Colin PowellInstitution: Cardiff UniversityValue: £1,984,669PUMA: Paediatric early warning system (...
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World in brief - 12 February 2015
USIt’s a lot easier for the richA study of 45 years’ worth of US data suggests that rising tuition costs and drops in federal government aid have made it harder for the country’s students from low-...
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News in brief - 12 February 2015
UK general election 2015More Oxbridge ties in the House?The next Parliament will likely include a disproportionately high number of MPs who graduated from Oxbridge, research suggests. A study by the...
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Rising above the mob
When respected scholars enter a public debate, one would hope that their arguments uphold the same principles that underpin their research, namely accuracy and objectivity. Unfortunately, the nine...
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Collaborative challenges
In suggesting that academe and industry need to work more closely together, Mark Samuels is revisiting one of the central aims of LINK – launched by the government in 1988 and running well into the...
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Plenty of buck but no bang
Carl Lygo’s argument that a university course is poor value for money is strengthened when costs in other educational sectors are compared (“Costly lessons”, Opinion, 5 February). For example, a full...
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Lodging a complaint
David Lodge’s novels deal with the relations between academia and the outside world (“Laughing from the inside”, Features, 29 January). They are highly realistic in terms of detail but questionable...