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Sheffield’s lifelong learning under threat, say students

Mature students decry plans to cut Institute for Lifelong Learning courses and move some provision to faculties

£9K fees: now it’s exceptional not to charge them

Willetts’ prediction that market forces would keep fees down have been proved false

Union clash looms as employers’ pension plans revealed

Employers propose scrapping final salary scheme to cut USS deficit

Government recognises growth is already in the university mission

Greg Clark’s portfolio will benefit institutions by recognising the vital role they play in local communities, Lord Heseltine argues

Veto of student loan sale raises fears of unfunded expansion

BIS budget may have to bear extra burden, some worry

Philanthropy must come without ideological strings

Some donors try to steer Israel studies to political ends, but gifts must fund impartial enquiry, says Charles Keidan

The week in higher education - 24 July 2014

A senior Aids researcher killed aboard Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has been praised for his “tireless efforts towards defeating the disease”, the Independent on Sunday reported on 19 July. Joep...

Grant application success rates dip

Four research councils report lower success rates for curiosity-driven funding

Seeing the big picture

David Roberts suggests that using full-slide images with minimal text can fully exploit students’ learning potential (“Target visualisation”, Opinion, 17 July). This is as big an error as the one...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 24 July 2014

MBA student fees fund management research

The most expensive degrees in the world are said to be subsidising scholarship

Economist ‘gobsmacked’ by Australia’s uncapping of fees

Architect of Australia’s HECS says change will leave universities free to raise charges far above the cost of teaching students

The fightback against sexism on campus

Sally Feldman on efforts to counter negative attitudes towards women on and offline

Analysis: why are v-cs heading for the door?

Reasons for a spate of exits include more pressure and pension limits

Will ever more gowns blight towns?

Uncapped student numbers will test the relationship between universities and their local communities