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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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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Crumbs of comfort on the beach
Emma Rees shares her holiday diary from the dunes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Adonis draws barbs for 'elitist' university access programme
Announcing a £15 million package to help "gifted and talented" pupils win places at elite universities may sound like an uncontroversial move.But when Schools Minister Andrew Adonis unveiled the...
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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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Academics at Christmas: are you ‘holly jolly’ or bah, humbug?
Seven scholars from around the world give us their festive reflections on snakes, bad lobster and turkeys’ backsides