Parties shape manifesto promises on higher education
‘Freeing’ universities, tuition fees and possible graduate tax figure large as Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats craft policies
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‘Postgraduate premium’ fuels cycle of social inequality
Salary boost from master’s degree rises while profile of students narrows, says Sutton Trust report
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Leru pulls out of EU’s U-Multirank scheme
Group of leading universities has ‘serious concerns’ about new ranking project
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Imperial translation unit faces closure
Institution says students will be safe as it considers moving or closing specialist department
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QAA unveils new appraisal standards
But critics say plans to relax peer reviews in some universities will introduce risk-based quality assurance by another route
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RCUK takes open-access green targets off fast track
Policy continues to worry academics despite research councils’ concession
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High price of gold: How early career researchers will suffer
Early career researchers and other “poor” academics may be disadvantaged under the gold model of open access, evidence submitted to the Lords Science and Technology Committee has suggested.The...
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Students burned on re-entry to high fees world
Costs of failure increase for first years
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Obama: you must listen to this man
Leeds scholar’s calls for Cambodian reform backed by US president
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News in brief
RetrenchmentStation departuresA redundancy consultation is under way at the University Marine Biological Station Millport after the Higher Education Funding Council for England decided to end its...
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Do your duty
The sector must not let claims that application rates vindicate fees policy go unchallenged, says Liam Burns
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Dose of realism over EU exit strategy
I cannot share the optimism of Alison Wolf and Nigel Healey over the prospects for UK higher education should the country leave the European Union (“Quitting Europe would be big, but not a crisis on...
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Make time to look within
It was nice to see my former research centre referred to in your editorial on the need for more higher education research (“Look sharp, the ground is shifting”, Leader, 31 January). “Gone but not...
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Bad mouths strike again
Please, please, please: no more articles or opinion pieces on how the UK’s immigration policies are harming international student recruitment (“Stubbornly indifferent”, Opinion, 31 January). The...
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Blaming the victims
As an equality and diversity consultant of many years’ standing and chair of UK Investor in Equality and Diversity, I read your article on Leeds Metropolitan University academic Jacqueline Stevenson’...