On Thursday, 26^th February 2015, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) will publish Whose to Lose?: Citizens, institutions and the ownership of higher education funding in a devolved UK. It covers all four parts of the UK, with a particular focus on Wales, and is written by Lucy Hunter Blackburn, the former Head of Higher Education for the Scottish Government.
The paper is being submitted to the Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance Arrangements in Wales in time for the end of their consultation period on Friday, 27^th February 2015. More...

By John Morgan. Labour has been urged to say whether or not it would reintroduce caps on undergraduate numbers after unveiling its pledge to lower fees to £6,000. More...

By Chris Parr. The government encouraged private colleges to grow “without sufficient regulation in place to protect public money” and a senior civil servant should have opposed the policy, according to MPs. More...

By Chris Havergal. Newcastle will become the latest UK institution to open a base in the capital this September, offering full- and part-time courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, with an “initial focus” on business programmes. More...