David Willetts has been forced to speak in the House of Commons to defend proposals that universities should be allowed to recruit unlimited numbers of home students who fund their tuition fees...
Reporting from the EC-sponsored Youth on the Move seminar in Florence, Phil Baty underscores the commitment of the ߣߣÊÓƵ World University Rankings to weighing all facets of...
Political ideology, scientific arrogance and the media’s search for a good story are hindering attempts to explain scientific findings, an academic claims. Matthew Reisz reports
By Dan Berrett, for Inside Higher Ed
A high-profile public information campaign will be launched today to persuade young people to apply to university for 2012-13 entry despite the trebling of the tuition fee cap.
Further evidence has emerged of divisions between universities and their further education college partners, with allegations of anti-competitive behaviour over tuition fees.
Universities could be allowed to recruit unlimited numbers of UK undergraduates who are able pay their tuition fees upfront under plans being considered by the coalition government.
The University of Cambridge increased its proportional intake from state schools and colleges last year, but only 16 of all successful UK applicants were black.
Academics at the University of Strathclyde are set to protest outside a meeting of the university court today to oppose planned cuts that could endanger more than 100 jobs.
A scientific explanation for human moral values is far from straightforward, reveals Margaret Boden
As UK citizens go to the polls on AV, Paul Whiteley is impressed by an analysis of joint governance
In his work Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino urges consideration of brevity as a positive and welcome attribute in writing, but it is unlikely that he had in mind a book quite as thin...
By now, books, articles and blogs about the virtues and vices of online distance learning are hardly new, and are frequently repetitive. But Taylor Walsh's Unlocking the Gates is different. She...
Michael King takes a look at legal, human rights and societal issues from a lawyer's perspective
Over the past decade, historians working on the Second World War have shifted their attention from the origins of the conflict to its impact. Fighting across the world between 1939 and 1945 led to...