Universities are being “economically irrational” by planning to charge tuition fees close to £9,000 and face permanently losing places if they fail to fill courses at that price, the business...
More than 1,000 people have signed a petition calling for philosophy to be saved at the University of Greenwich.
The University of Greenwich has appointed a new vice-chancellor.
When it comes to global league tables, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings offer the most comprehensive approach. Phil Baty reports
Teaching popular culture is a gift and challenge. When done well, students’ experiences are defamiliarised, disassembled and disrupted, and then reconstituted with freshness and inspiration. Popular...
A union official has called on a cross-party group of MPs to investigate whether universities are colluding on tuition fees.
The vice-chancellor of the second post-1992 university to set £9,000 fees has called on the government to “pause” fee rises and new legislation to allow time for a “new Dearing report” into the...
The University of Derby has announced that it intends to set variable tuition fees of up to £8,000 from September 2012.
The rate of social mobility in England over the past century and a half was substantially slower than most social scientists believe – and possibly slower than in the Middle Ages.That is the...
Tens of thousands of academics across the globe are now being invited to take part in the world’s biggest survey of university reputations ever undertaken.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Driven by its stated mission to pursue internationalisation via a socially progressive path, the Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas (Alba) is quietly expanding its alternative vision of higher...
Some pharmacy students are getting less than half as much contact time as their peers at other UK universities, according to new figures.
Lecturers at Liverpool Hope University are to strike next week in a row over job losses.
Just six months after Lord Browne’s landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its...