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.
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” records on access.
The coalition government must take the tough political decision to make student loans less generous if it wants to fix the "central impediment" to an "efficient, competitive and high-quality" higher education sector, according to a report out this week.
Reports that the government is to shelve its higher education bill raise the prospect of the coalition sneaking controversial changes through not only by ministerial directives that avoid parliamentary scrutiny, but also in other unrelated bills, an academic has claimed.
A project that funds African academics whose careers are "stuck" because they lack the time or money for postgraduate study is asking the World Bank to help it grow tenfold.
The head of the Student Loans Company is reported to be being paid through a private firm rather than directly, a mechanism that can be used to reduce income tax liability.
Universities in England will receive an extra £40 million to help fund taught postgraduate students next year but will lose around £30 million due to institutions admitting too many undergraduates last autumn.
Scientists should agree not to publish experiments into increasing the virulence of potentially dangerous microbes such as the bird flu virus until wider society can agree on “the balance that must be struck between academic freedom and protecting the greater good of humankind from potential danger”.
The effect of the government’s student visa policies on private higher education colleges has been “swift and probably even more devastating than was predicted”, according to a think tank.
The government is to clamp down on over-recruitment of students by universities in order to keep costs under control, according to this year’s grant letter.
Universities UK is lobbying the government to create a net migration count that excludes university students from abroad - with some billing it as the only way for the government to hit its target to cut the immigration figure.
These images are taken from an ornately designed leather-bound scrapbook, now in the collection of the Humanities Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, that Jane Webb Loudon (1807-58) seems to have put together for family and friends.
Academic work that is entered into the research excellence framework as worth "double" a normal submission can, in every discipline, be accompanied by a "reserve" option in case reviewers do not agree that it should count twice, it has been decided.
A scientist was forced to leave his job at the University of Manchester after being subjected to a "barrage of shouting and verbal abuse" by a senior professor, a tribunal has ruled.
Undergraduates should have study skills classes throughout their entire degree course rather than just a handful of sessions in their first year, the National Union of Students has said.
The government's apparent move to suspend the higher education bill will not automatically derail the expansion of private provision, according to government critics and leading private institutions.
Barack Obama has called on state departments to prioritise higher education in their budgets – but has warned universities that spiralling tuition will be met with a cut in taxpayer funding.
