Labour loses White Paper vote
MPs have rejected Labour calls for the publication of a higher education White Paper before the parliamentary vote on tuition fees, as the opposition accused the coalition government of wanting the...
Search
-
-
Student finance reforms would leave more than 60% of graduates poorer, says Million+ report
More than 60 per cent of graduates will be poorer across their lifetimes if government reforms to student finance are voted through, according to new analysis.
-
Seeking volunteers: scholars urged to take pay freeze to aid Scottish academy
Academics in Scotland should accept a voluntary pay freeze to help shore up the sector’s finances and prevent a decline in course quality, a scholar has argued.
-
Weinberg to take the reins at Kingston
Kingston University has named its new vice-chancellor.
-
Should lecturers leave unruly classes?
By Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed
-
Friends in need: the Council for Assisting Refugee Academics and Scholars at Risk help to rebuild lives
“Not much to celebrate at the moment in Baghdad,” May Witwit emailed Bee Rowlatt on 7 December 2006. “A threat has reached university teachers and students…warning them to stop attending lectures or...
-
Hefce head denounces likely loss of arts teaching funding
The man in charge of allocating funding to England’s universities has said he would not be “comfortable” living and working in a country that did not provide teaching funding for arts and humanities...
-
Top award for York as sector celebrates its achievements
The University of York has been named University of the Year at the Times Higher Education Awards 2010.
-
Competitive pressure: Willetts sounds warning on fee levels
Universities should not assume they can all charge high fees and must be careful not to “underestimate” the competition they will face from new providers such as further education colleges, David...
-
THE Awards 2010: winners announced
What do a rubbish-collecting recommissioned milk float, “magnetricity” and the bombardier beetle have in common? They have all played a part in helping academics and their universities triumph in the...
-
Lib Dem deputy targeted as student protests continue
Students protesting against plans for higher tuition fees and the abolition of the Education Maintenance Grant have barricaded themselves in the constituency office of the deputy leader of the...
-
Aimhigher brought down by coalition axe
A national programme that aims to widen participation in higher education is to be scrapped.
-
The Memory Chalet
Roger Morgan salutes a collection of personal memories from a stimulating and original historian
-
The Finger: A Handbook
Alex Danchev enjoys the pontifications of a scholar led happily astray from the topic in hand
-
The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?
Financial crisis is a many-headed hydra and unravelling its causes a Herculean task. In The Financial Crisis: Who is to Blame?, Howard Davies makes significant progress, presenting a relatively clear...