Government plans to grant a VAT exemption to for-profit higher education providers will "rig the higher education market" in their favour and use public subsidies "to create corporate and individual...
More than a quarter of England and Wales' adult population has a higher education qualification, although a North-South divide prevails, the 2011 census has revealed.
The amount of money universities were given in donations of at least £1 million leapt by more than a third in 2010-11, according to a report by the bank Coutts.
Michael Arthur has been named as the next president and provost of University College London.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
The retail and financial sectors remain the top recruiters of graduates despite the economic turbulence of recent years, a report has found.
The chief executive of the National Union of Students is to leave the organisation next year to take up a role heading up the Scout Association.
A lack of undergraduate courses that cover online information security is jeopardising the effectiveness of the UK's Cyber Security Strategy, according to a leading expert.
More than one in three young people in the UK are put off post-secondary training or education because of the perceived cost, a report has found.
Prospective students from independent schools are much more likely to submit good personal statements to back up their applications to university, a study has found.
The US is sleepwalking when it should be defusing the demographic time bomb, finds Robert Mayhew
James Wilsdon weighs an unashamedly complex consideration of a Whitehall revolution
An analysis of violence using the logic of right and wrong impresses and educates Ted Honderich
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