University innovation fund will not be increased, says government
The government will not increase the value of the higher education innovation fund, it announced today.
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Sussex protest students receive a ‘caution’
Lawyer criticises university for drawn-out process that has led to ‘mere reprimand’
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David Willetts on the future of higher education
Minister of state for universities and science David Willetts discusses UK higher education at Brunel University in London
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Universities to get near 6 per cent cut to ‘most teaching budgets’
Teaching grants for universities in England are to fall by more than the £45 million announced last month, the country’s funding council has said.
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Universities should face more scrutiny over competition, says OFT
The Office of Fair Trading wants further scrutiny of English higher education to judge if some rules for students may breach consumer protection law
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Hermann Hauser to look at future of Catapults
Ministers have commissioned a review on the possibility of expanding the Technology Strategy Board’s network of Catapult centres.
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Warwick UCU calls for Thomas Docherty to be reinstated
Union members have called for a prominent critic of higher education policy to be returned to work after he was suspended by the University of Warwick.
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THE podcast: 13 March 2014 issue review
Download the podcastFears that universities could lose their licences to recruit overseas students, the implications of zero-hours contracts for university employees, and the memoirs of John Carey...
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Sodexo-ߣߣÊÓƵ University Lifestyle Survey 2014 results
How has debt from higher fees changed students?
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John Carey: the constant reader
Despite the snobbery of Oxford, a young literary scholar found the liberty to know and speak his mind
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Hanif Kureishi is wrong about students
There are talents in everyone, and it is the teacher’s role to develop them, says Will Buckingham
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Laughter of despair
How much political folly can we stomach? asks Christopher Bigsby
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Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, by Simon Blackburn
Shahidha Bari delights in a lucid and graceful philosophical probing of self-consciousness
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Smile...you’re on NSS
We have endeavoured over the past few weeks to provide guidelines for all those academic members of staff who wish to influence the results of the current National Student Survey in a manner that...
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Discard the student caricatures
Negative assumptions about undergraduates distract from the debate over the responsibilities of educators, says Sarah Moore