The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has outlined the scale of the financial challenge facing his institution, prompting fears of further job cuts and course closures.In a packed...
Campaign for the recognition of value of education gathers pace. Rebecca Attwood and Phil Baty report
More than 180 academics have signed a letter calling on the Higher Education Academy to reverse its decision to close its network of discipline-based teaching-support centres.The letter expresses "...
Delays over funding details leave Scots in dark as Welsh face competitive gap. Hannah Fearn writes
Reactions to Prince William's engagement, A.W. Purdue says, show just how far our social order has shifted
Trying to make the Lib Dems keep their pre-election pledge on tuition should be just one tactic in the NUS' arsenal, recommends Ivor Gaber
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The government has set out plans to radically reform teacher training.
“Salami-slicing” the research budget is preferable to making “extremely dangerous” decisions to cease funding whole areas of research, according to physicist Brian Cox.
The government is to slash the number of foreign students studying in the UK, as well as reducing the number of visas for highly skilled workers by a fifth.New visa restrictions were outlined today...
By Dan Berrett for Inside Higher Ed
Fears are growing about the effects of a sharp reduction in immigration on universities as the government prepares to announce cuts to student visas.The Home Secretary, Theresa May, is this week...
A chief architect of the regulatory reform proposed to guarantee the quality of higher education in Australia has assured the heads of the country’s elite universities that they will not be buried in...
A row between scientists and the government has been avoided after the director general for science and research, Adrian Smith, was confirmed in an expanded Whitehall role that also includes higher...