By Nic Paton. Look at smaller companies, seek out positions that accept a ‘Desmond’ degree and emphasise extracurricular skills to get a graduate job. More...

By Sally Weale. With more than 70% of graduates now leaving university with a first or upper second, Jo Johnson says additional grade point average is needed. More...

By Richard Adams. Russel Group chair Sir David Eastwood says minister’s claims are not borne out by student surveys, and predicts tuition fees will have to rise. More...

The UK’s universities can justifiably claim an outstanding international reputation, generating multiple direct and indirect benefits for society, and underpinning our core professions through training and education. Yet these attributes are being undermined and degraded from within and without, with innovation, creativity, originality and critical thought, as well as notions of social justice, being threatened by forces of marketisation demanding “competitiveness” and “efficiency” in teaching and research. This generates continuous pressures to standardise, conform, obey and duplicate in order to be “transparent” to measurement. More...

By Peter Scott. We need to increase differentiation – not by fighting over funding but by building networks and working together in solidarity. More...