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By . Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey.
Universities should increase their tuition fees for international students to £11,000 a year because this appears to have little impact on demand, a survey has suggested. More...
By . Major concerns have been expressed about plans to close the Institute of English Studies, which forms part of the University of London’s School of Advanced Study. In a letter sent to the IES advisory board on 15 May, Roger Kain - dean and chief executive of the SAS – explains that the vice‐chancellor’s executive group was “recommending a concentration of funding into a smaller number of institutes”. More...
By . A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.
At a press conference in Brussels on 13 May, the U-Multirank was officially launched by Androulla Vassiliou, European commissioner for education, culture, multilingualism and youth. More...
By . Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.
The removal of fee caps, to apply from 2016, was announced alongside a cut in government funding for universities in the budget unveiled on 13 May by Joe Hockey, the Australian treasurer. More...
By . The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.
That is the argument set out by the University Alliance, a mission group of 22 universities, in a report published today under the title “Closing the gap: unlocking opportunity through higher education”. More...
By . Too many policy experts look to the US and Australia as “some higher education funding nirvana”, according to the vice-chancellor who chairs Million+. The comments from Michael Gunn, vice-chancellor of Staffordshire University, follow a recent report highlighting lessons England could draw from the Australian higher education system. Nick Hillman, the director of the Higher Education Policy Institute and former special adviser to David Willetts, published last month a Hepi pamphlet on England-Australia comparisons. More...
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