9 February 2012
Smoke out the bad books - A six-point cipher to crack the baloney code

Smoke out the bad books - A six-point cipher to crack the baloney code

John Lewis’ values: a palatable hit for a divided sector, argues Sally Feldman

A political row over the next director of fair access has been sparked after Tory MPs on the Business, Innovation and Skills select committee rejected the selection of Les Ebdon as preferred...
Ministers could still have the final say on whether Les Ebdon is appointed as the next director of fair access, even though it looks likely that a committee of MPs has voted against his appointment.

Speculation is rife that the government’s preferred candidate for the post of director of fair access – Les Ebdon – has been blocked from the role by Conservative MPs after a delay in the...
The potential takeover of a private higher education college with degree-awarding powers has entered a crucial stage, with education giant Pearson reportedly the front-runner to secure the deal.

By Mitch Smith, for Inside Higher Ed
An independent inquiry has been launched to investigate postgraduate education.

The University of Essex has appointed a senior manager at Durham University as its new vice-chancellor.
Further education colleges are set to receive more student places from the price-based “margin” than universities after the initial allocations were revealed by the government.

Les Ebdon has used his first appearance before MPs as the government’s preferred choice for the post of director of fair access to lay down the gauntlet to highly-selective universities with “patchy...
Expanding the number of international students in the UK is not necessarily a good thing, immigration minister Damian Green has suggested.

Informal links keep society strong but, Frank Furedi finds, we don't make them like we used to

Helen Castor finds a fine-grained narrative on a medieval monarch quite compelling
"The King-times are fast finishing," wrote Lord Byron of the brief period with which John Gardner's book is concerned - August 1819 to August 1821. Gardner argues that these years, beginning with the...