A chance to rethink the current model
Ministers and the higher education community are rightly asking tough questions about quality assurance and the safeguarding of public funding now that private providers are offering degree courses...
Ministers and the higher education community are rightly asking tough questions about quality assurance and the safeguarding of public funding now that private providers are offering degree courses...


The battle to protect academic freedom in the counter-terrorism and security bill seemed to be nearing a conclusion this week after final amendments were agreed by peers. Having previously inserted...

“I think we have at last found the ideal speaker.”That was how our newly appointed Head of Safe Space, Gerald Bowdler, described the latest development in our university’s long search for a public...

Expect the unexpected - Danny Dorling analyses the present and future of student admissions

The UK university sector’s digital network is unique in the world. It’s not just cost-efficient for subscribers but priceless, says Martin Hall

Isabelle Szmigin on the not-so secret formula underpinning a highly profitable global model

Institutions splashed the cash to stay competitive, resulting in a REF price tag that may be far higher than the official estimate
Reading the results of the Best University Workplace Survey 2015 (“Just the job?”, Features, 5 February) reminded me of when I worked in a new university in England. We were expected to undertake...

A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

Soas conference discusses building a network of groups fighting for fair pay and conditions for casual teaching staff

Glasgow Caledonian to reduce financial and other backing for work that falls outside three ‘societal challenges’

George Freeman says public will back government’s ‘brave decision’ to open up healthcare records to medical research

Viral Thakerar dissatisfied with an OIA judgement restricted by university’s destruction of relevant exam documents

Higher education institutions are redefining the role of museums and galleries as cultural providers, as Ian Wylie reports