Pay out then priced out: bid to rein in high journal costs
Report estimates the cost of peer review to UK universities to be £165 million, writes Paul Jump
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Gulf opens for UCL as Qatari campus aims to unearth past
Regional cash bankrolls postgraduate focus, but critics warn of reputational risks. John Gill writes
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Global success, Suomi-style: Finns take you higher more cheaply and easily
The university sectors of Norway, the Netherlands and Finland are models for the international community when it comes to accessibility and affordability, a new analysis suggests.
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Meeting of minds on many matters
Academy's challenges feature among wide-ranging, myth-popping debates. Matthew Reisz reports
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4 November 2010
A-level design - Should universities be entrusted with refurbishing and maintaining the qualification?
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Two-tier fees structure adopted as coalition goes beyond Browne on interest rates
Universities will be able to charge tuition fees of up to £9,000 and higher-earning graduates will face interest rates on their loans of 3 per cent above inflation under proposals unveiled today.
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US elections: tighter budgets for higher education
By Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
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Tara Brabazon: Trade routes of the mind
Harold Innis was a professor at the same institution for decades – but while he remained steadfastly local and empirical, he probed the expansive variables of space and time. Tara Brabazon reveres...
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Major campaign aims to put King’s among the fundraising elite
King’s College London today launched the largest fundraising campaign of any UK university bar Oxbridge.
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Inside Higher Ed: Answering an uninvited preacher
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Downturn hits graduate employment
Graduate unemployment is at its highest level in 17 years, according to figures released today.
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South America is ready to tango with its academic partners
Bank breaks the ice as insular universities look abroad for collaboration. Paul Jump reports
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Progressive state
Kerala's distinctive higher education system is undergoing reform with some success, but there are problems it shares with the rest of India that will take much effort to overcome, say Philip G....
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Can we afford not to spend more?
The Browne report heralds long-overdue competition and diversity in English higher education but, says Vernon Bogdanor, it also sets a big challenge for the government because its vision will not be...
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The market charge
Did necessity or ideology drive thinking behind Browne and the CSR, and will unleashing student/consumer demand improve or imperil the sector? Simon Baker investigates