English universities ‘could lose £1.4 billion’ from fee-cut plan
Data analysis by É«ºÐÖ±²¥ suggests some universities would take a hit of more than £25 million if fees were slashed to £7,500 for classroom subjects
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Nicola Dandridge to be CEO of England’s Office for Students
Experienced sector figure to leave UUK post in September for powerful new regulator
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Crumbs of comfort on the beach
Emma Rees shares her holiday diary from the dunes
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There is an alternative to high-cost v-cs
Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham
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Conservative conference 2017: ministers know the fees system must change
Andy Green weighs up the three main parties’ higher education policies and suggests his own solution to the funding question
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'Arrogant' universities seen as out of touch and ripe for cutbacks
Glyn Davis, vice-chancellor at the University of Melbourne, on a 'rising chorus' of complaints about universities in the UK and Australia
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The week in higher education: 10 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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The week in higher education – 3 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Is abolishing tuition fees regressive? It depends how it’s done
Replacing England’s tuition fee system with a cheaper and fairer alternative is not as difficult as many claim, says Andrew Adonis
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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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YouGov poll for É«ºÐÖ±²¥: public opposition to £9K fees outweighs support
But polling also finds balance of public opinion is against Labour policy and tuition fees rated low among voting priorities
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Tuition fees could pay a political price
Higher education policy could easily be drawn into the deal-making and compromises that are routine in hung parliaments, says Nick PearceÂ
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Are ‘edusceptics’ right to portray higher education as a big con?
A recent wave of commentators have been disparaging universities and painting all who work in them as complicit in a fraud. Philip Cowan examines their case
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The Russell Group’s power over English education must be wielded more wisely
Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane