More needed than tinkering
John Jerrim’s argument that free university tuition is in effect a subsidy for the rich is quite correct, although it was only one among a raft of such subsidies (“Free university tuition ‘could lead...
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No silver bullet
The question of whether the fall in UK undergraduate applicants spells trouble for universities also needs to be asked at postgraduate level (“End of boom time for universities?”, 5 February). The...
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How to help Jordan
There has been much debate about how to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Syria and beyond. That debate has also taken place at the University of Bath over the past few months, with calls for the...
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Tertiary study’s impact on views of the political process
This graphic shows to what extent tertiary education increases people’s sense that they have a say in politics
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Internationalisation 2.0: scaling up to meet the challenges
Universities are finding that feeding the growing worldwide hunger to learn requires an international team effort
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Elite universities ‘going backwards’ on widening access
Figures suggest Oxford and Cambridge among seven Russell Group institutions with lower proportion of poorer students compared with 10 years ago
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Pension and National Insurance hikes to hit academics hard
Extra contributions are likely to cost many university staff more than £1,000 a year, analysis shows
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Dwight Jaffee, 1943-2016
A prominent academic expert on banking, mortgages and insurance has died
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Should there be a right to offend on campus?
Free speech campaigners argue that campuses should not be entirely safe
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One in 10 staff ‘intimidated over sexuality or gender identity’
Survey suggests 3 per cent of higher and further education workers have been physically assaulted because they are homosexual, bisexual or transsexual
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The weirdest questions asked about your PhD
Doctoral student Ana Kedveš asked her colleagues to submit the strangest questions they have faced