Leading philosophy professor reveals battle with depression
By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

Controversial cuts to Disabled Students’ Allowance are to be subject to a legal challenge

Strict conditions on Glyndwr University’s licence to recruit international students are to be maintained, following a Home Office review

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has ruled out the introduction of tuition fees north of the border if his party wins next year’s Holyrood election

But Liam Byrne insists graduate tax is still ‘long-term policy’ for party

Devolved nations may face pressure to meet funding shortfall

The government wants to cut the number of students with public funding recruited by “poorer quality” private colleges offering sub-degree courses

The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014

A play based on an academic study of the stresses and satisfactions of care work in dementia wards has now set off on a six-venue tour

Professors are several percentage points more likely to be women than they were a decade ago, new figures show

What will hold back the use of technology in higher education over the next five years?

Labour has been urged to say whether or not it would reintroduce caps on undergraduate numbers after unveiling its pledge to lower fees to £6,000.

QAA report followed claims university had bent rules to allow students sponsored by Saudi government extra resits

As Ed Miliband announces Labour’s policy on university tuition fees, the shadow universities minister sets out his party’s plans for higher education

Ed Miliband has pledged that a Labour government would lower fees to £6,000 and raise maintenance grants by £400