Greater efficiency would help cover pensions liabilities
Universities should emulate the private sector in a positive way by eliminating costly duplication, says a worker in professional services

Universities should emulate the private sector in a positive way by eliminating costly duplication, says a worker in professional services

New Hepi paper that ranks universities on intake equality illustrates gulf between some Russell Group universities and others

Just five out of 57 appointed members are from black or ethnic minority backgrounds

Book of the week: Lennard J. Davis lauds a study of portrayals of the poor as a fitting memorial to its author

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Universities on both sides of the Atlantic are building up big debts, but is it prudent to bet on student numbers growing and super-low interest rates and high fees enduring? David Matthews examines...

Data from one of last Hefce reports likely to throw down the gauntlet to new Office for Students on grade inflation
In a recent opinion article, Nick Hillman asked, “Is the voice of students’ unions too powerful?” (26 March). Of course there should be a discussion about the role of students and students’ unions in...
In “USS strike: why I won’t join the pensions strike” (Opinion, 28 March), Nick Foster argues that the case for pensions reform cannot be ignored. He cites a recent Green Paper, Security and...
Cathy Shrank is right to take the universities minister, Sam Gyimah, to task over his plans to introduce consumer-style ratings for degree courses, but I’m not sure she goes far enough (“...
The article “Stop taking liberties with free speech” ( Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018, 22 March) verged on self-satirising propaganda for the Office for Students and its plan...