Reconfiguring the landscape
Ireland’s government expects consolidation to play a big role in creating a financially sustainable higher education system. As the sector pores over a new strategy document that will inform...

Ireland’s government expects consolidation to play a big role in creating a financially sustainable higher education system. As the sector pores over a new strategy document that will inform...

Universities and science minister David Willetts has laid out how the government plan to spend the £600 million allocated to research in December’s Autumn Statement

Podcast Powered By PodbeanUcas student figures, Moocs and Ireland are all up for discussion in this week’s THE podcast issue review. News editor Simon Baker and reporters Jack Grove and Matthew Reisz...
The publisher Sage has slashed the price of publishing in its flagship open-access journal to just $99 (£63) in the wake of concern about whether researchers in the humanities and social sciences...

Cinematic treatment of the Great Emancipator offers insights into changing attitudes towards the US presidency and the parallels between its 16th and 44th incumbents

Hungary’s higher education reforms are facing fierce student opposition, as Kata Ámon reports

Ucas data demonstrate wide-ranging impact of fees and funding changes. John Morgan reports
Students at some of the UK’s leading university computer science departments are going head-to head to prove their cyber security skills by battling it out in an online code-breaking challenge.
New College of the Humanities, the privately funded higher education institution charging fees of £18,000 a year, plans to open a free school in partnership with a private school firm.

The University of Bristol was one of the biggest winners in the first year of higher fees, expanding its new student cohort by 28 per cent, while London Metropolitan University saw its intake shrink...
Staff levels at UK higher education institutions have dropped for the second consecutive year, new figures show.
A drop in student numbers of 30,000 this year could cost the country more than £6 billion over the next 40 years, according to a new report.
A sideways look at the week’s big stories

Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports

Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism