Spending review: student funding shake-up announced
Government relaxes student loan eligibility rules but confirms plan to freeze repayment threshold, as student opportunity funding also targeted
Government relaxes student loan eligibility rules but confirms plan to freeze repayment threshold, as student opportunity funding also targeted
Universities and other sector bodies have given a cautious welcome to proposals contained in a new Green Paper on higher education
As the proposer of the Parliamentary early day motion in support of the Campaigning Alliance for Lifelong Learning (CALL), I was surprised by your account of the organisation's Westminster lobby with...
Scholars and senior sector figures reveal their favourites – read for work, for pleasure, or both – of the titles published this year
Although as your article "Burden of oversight grows as committee membership drops" (23 April) suggests, the select committee of which we are all members has a wide area to cover, and that we have...
Politicians from all parties came out in support of the need for pay rises this week, but some warned the strikes could backfire. Gordon Marsden, Labour MP for Blackpool South, tabled a motion in...
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, was booed as he defended the Government's record on education at a volatile meeting with campaigners in Westminster last week.Responding to persistent...
Committee cites downturn in calling for Government to drop participation targets. Hannah Fearn reports
Lifelong learningMPs back more adult educationMore than 100 MPs have signed an early day motion lamenting the loss of 1.4 million adult-education places over the past two years and calling for more...
The Select Committee fails to draw blood in its probe of the state of higher education. John Gill reports from ringside on the feints and footwork
A "league table of crime" in university cities was published by The Independent on 22 May. "Mothers and fathers, as well as potential students, take note," the paper said. "The most crime-ridden city...
Mandarins deny claims that new metrics plan has been rushed in to reduce costs. Anthea Lipsett reports The Government did not act in haste to replace the research assessment exercise with metrics,...
Universities may be discriminating against state school pupils who apply to Oxford, Cambridge and other top universities, it emerged this week. Members of the Commons' education select committee...
All the organisations involved in the recent agreement on quality assurance are keen to put on a good face and claim victory for their position. The truth is messier. A number of factors are at work...
MPs are preparing a major inquiry into higher education but are making it clear that it will not be a repeat of Dearing. Two years after the Dearing report, the House of Commons education...