Nobody knows what Tony Blair meant when he made his now-famous commitment to 50 per cent participation in higher education. There is also doubt about where the percentage stood when he said it, and...
The amounts vice-chancellors are now being paid is outrageous - and most offensive of all is the practice of bumping up salaries in the year before retirement, thereby sticking a large bill on the...
First university fees, next school and hospital fees? Tony Benn asks how much more Labour will make us pay for. One option is conspicuously lacking from the government's highly publicised review of...
Cambridge University is to beef up the powers of its vice-chancellor and water down the traditional democratic role of its community of scholars as part of major constitutional reform. "The...
Drama students at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh will this month stage the world premiere of local author Irvine Welsh's first musical, writes Olga Wojtas. The publicity material...
Any revamped version of the individual learning account should be monitored by a super-regulator to prevent fraud and misuse of public funds, MPs were told this week. The regulator should act like a...
More than a dozen students have been thrown out of Innsbruck University for paying €4 (£2.44) too little for their €410 a semester tuition fees. The students thought they had paid their fees by money...
The funding of the RAE will undermine cutting-edge research, argue Harry Kroto and Tony Stace. Now that the dust has settled on the results from the 2001 research assessment exercise, it is clear...
Processing hordes of semi-interested young people in teaching factories is no way to promote economic growth, argues Joe Bone. At Northern New University, I ask politics students what a civil servant...
Everyone makes mistakes when they speak. Up to 15 per cent of an average person's speech can contain dysfluencies. By listening to ourselves as we talk, auditing our output for hesitations,...
If the national anthem plays when Alex Coomber collects a gold medal in the forthcoming Winter Olympics, a London academic will be justified in claiming some of the glory, writes Steve Farrar. Peter...
The public spending watchdog is being urged to investigate possible abuse of public funds after some former vice-chancellors doubled their incomes last year. Sir John Daniel, former vice-chancellor...
Up to 1,000 academics could be paid from what heads of institutions earn. Alison Goddard adds up the rewards. The heads of universities and colleges shared almost £20 million in pay between them last...
As former vice-chancellor of the Open University, Sir John Daniel was identified as the highest paid university head in the same week that the United States Open University he founded announced it...
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