Time to test private colleges' efficiency
Andrew McGettigan considers the findings of the National Audit Office’s investigation into alternative providers
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Poppleton college slammed
Poppleton’s leading private for-profit higher education college, the Great British College of Business, Computing, Technology and Management, has been “shamed” in a new report from the government’s...
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Coherent higher education policy? Far from it
Despite the introduction of postgraduate loans, the government’s education funding aims remain a puzzle, says Nigel Carrington
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It’s our duty to assess the costs of the REF
As we await the results of the research excellence framework 2014, it is time to reflect. The basic idea of identifying and directing research funding towards excellence must be right. Few would...
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Open days seen from the other side
Christopher Phelps views universities through new eyes when he accompanies his daughter on a tour of UK campuses
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Researcher volunteers for moral duty on Ebola’s front line
Shunmay Yeung of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine describes her part in fighting the viral outbreak in Sierra Leone
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It’s the way that they do it
The REF may have alienated many academics because of how it has been interpreted by a management culture
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‘This is not a drill!’: countdown to the REF 2014
As the results of the research excellence framework approach, Emma Rees’ sleep-deprived imagination runs riot
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Universities need more collaboration, less competition
David Willetts calls for academics to work together during a debate on the REF and the state of higher education
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Half of schools ‘had no medicine applicants’
Half of schools in Britain did not provide a single applicant to medicine over a three-year period, a new study shows
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Universities risk only ‘social elite’ having key knowledge
Emeritus professor warns over growth of higher education courses that veer towards the ‘mundane’
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Nerc prepares ground to make major research centres charities
A research council is laying the groundwork that would enable it to give two of its research centres charitable status
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Graduate salary premium ‘narrowing’, BIS report suggests
University graduates earn an average of £9,000 more per year than non-graduates but the gap is narrowing, official statistics show
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The 10 most popular academic papers of 2014
Alternative metrics reveal the papers receiving the most online attention
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Time for the taught master’s to shine?
Criticism of postgraduate loans scheme smacks of the adage: ‘never let a good deed go unpunished’, writes Andrew Wathey