Fine pencils are no use in the UK’s big-picture fees debate
University leaders dismayed by factual holes in the revived debate over tuition fees should respond with some broad brush strokes of their own, says Andy Westwood
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Lord Adonis is dead wrong: tuition fees should stay
Knee-jerk, uncosted and damaging calls to abolish fees must be resisted, says Bill Rammell
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A graduate tax would bring transparency to university funding
Flexible degrees and a clearer public contribution to their cost would command widespread support, says Iain Martin
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Optimism about US international student numbers is misplaced
US universities’ efforts to remain positive won’t wash. Trump is a disaster for recruitment, say Philip Altbach and Hans de Wit
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Academic writing: how to stay afloat
Early career academics can be left to sink or swim when navigating the choppy waters of learning scholarly writing. Helen Sword says a more formal, communal approach can help everyone, especially...
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Inequality: are hyper-selective universities making it worse?
John Morgan considers the hierarchies of prestige in higher education, the insights offered by big data research, and whether mixed-ability universities are the answer
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Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds
Tuition fees rank marginally above animal rights on list of voting priorities – but young people assign higher importance
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Why aren’t we debating all the issues in higher education?
As the row over fees reignites and mutates into a debate over the very purpose of universities, silence reigns on the issue of hyper-selectivity
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Laurie Taylor – 20 July 2017
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Layers of hypocrisy in TEF reaction
Emilie Murphy was not the first academic to declare that the teaching excellence framework could not possibly be credible “without anyone actually stepping foot inside classrooms and lecture theatres...
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A line in the sand
Teesside University recently announced that all professors who are not in management roles will have to reapply for their jobs (“University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs”, News...