The vice-chancellor of the second post-1992 university to set £9,000 fees has called on the government to “pause” fee rises and new legislation to allow time for a “new Dearing report” into the...
The University of Derby has announced that it intends to set variable tuition fees of up to £8,000 from September 2012.
The rate of social mobility in England over the past century and a half was substantially slower than most social scientists believe – and possibly slower than in the Middle Ages.That is the...
Tens of thousands of academics across the globe are now being invited to take part in the world’s biggest survey of university reputations ever undertaken.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Driven by its stated mission to pursue internationalisation via a socially progressive path, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (Alba) is quietly expanding its alternative vision of higher...
Some pharmacy students are getting less than half as much contact time as their peers at other UK universities, according to new figures.
Lecturers at Liverpool Hope University are to strike next week in a row over job losses.
Just six months after Lord Browne’s landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its...
Are world leaders born or made? Can policy- based courses prepare the next generation for the challenges ahead? Harry Hoare discusses the role of philosophy in honing the hearts and minds of those...
Finbarr Livesey describes the courses preparing the leaders of the future with theory, practical insights...and healthy doses of humility
As his report on university governance is released, Malcolm Gillies asserts that alumni will make the best governors as they are the ones who will hold the greatest stake in future
Michael Berry appreciates the relentless scientific optimism of one of the UK's most original thinkers
Joanna Lewis follows the fearless explorers who took on and helped take over the Dark Continent
Religion was supposed to fade away in a secularising, globalising modernity, and in the post-9/11 period, proponents of secularism are often angry and bewildered at the persistence of religion. For...