Grayling's college bids for free school
New College of the Humanities, the privately funded higher education institution charging fees of £18,000 a year, plans to open a free school in partnership with a private school firm.
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Bristol the big winner as Ucas reveals all on 2012-13 student numbers
The University of Bristol was one of the biggest winners in the first year of higher fees, expanding its new student cohort by 28 per cent, while London Metropolitan University saw its intake shrink...
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Overall university staff levels drop but academic numbers remain stable
Staff levels at UK higher education institutions have dropped for the second consecutive year, new figures show.
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Drop in student numbers 'could cost economy £6 billion'
A drop in student numbers of 30,000 this year could cost the country more than £6 billion over the next 40 years, according to a new report.
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The week in higher education
A sideways look at the week’s big stories
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NSP overhauled to help neediest
Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports
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Territory of dreadful delight
Joanna Lewis hails a challenging ‘must-read’ for historians of late-Victorian imperialism
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Healthier constitution
Perhaps the reason US citizens are not knowledgeable about the US Constitution is because, as Alan Ryan notes, “the least well-off 80 per cent of the population exercises no influence on the policies...
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Carry on with research and destroy, says MRSA hunter
Departing head of Nottingham’s infections centre calls for redoubled efforts. Matthew Reisz writes
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Ministerial statement: yes to stability, no to net migrant recount
Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy
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Landmarks in Strasbourg, headquarters in Middlesex
Matthew Reisz on the law centre marking a decade of human rights battles in a new university home
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Ministerial statement: yes to stability, no to net migrant recount
Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy
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Seymour Laxon, 1963-2013
A leading researcher on the changes taking place at the polar ice caps has died.Seymour Laxon was born on 22 September 1963 and brought up in Leamington Spa and then North London. His parents were...
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences• Award winner: Jelena Grbic• Institution: University of Manchester• Value: £219,633The homotopy theory of toric spaces• Award winner: Heather Knight•...
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Unconscious track to disciplinary train wreck
When Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman sees a "train wreck looming" for social psychology, alarm bells should ring among its researchers. It is therefore regrettable to read Stephen Gibson, honorary...