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By Jack Grove. England’s university access tsar boycotted a conference on student welfare after a controversial lending firm was also invited to speak. More...

By Chris Havergal. A major reorganisation of quality-related funding in Scotland will take money away from the “ancient” universities and hand it to newer institutions. More...

By Chris Havergal. The conversion of polytechnics into universities has been lamented as a “poor decision” by the business secretary. Mr Cable told the Association of Colleges’ annual higher education conference, held on 4 March, that the UK suffered from a lack of higher level and specialised apprenticeships. More...

By Chris Havergal. Strict conditions on Glyndwr University’s licence to recruit international students are to be maintained, following a Home Office review. More...

By Chris Havergal. Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has ruled out the introduction of tuition fees north of the border if his party wins next year’s Holyrood election. More...

By Chris Havergal. The introduction of £6,000 tuition fees in England by a Labour government would have a significant impact on higher education funding in Scotland and Wales, and could potentially trigger the introduction of caps on cross-border student migration, observers have said. More...

By John Morgan. The UK’s universities increased their income from overseas students once again last year, with their fee payments rising to 12.7 per cent of total income. More...

By John Morgan. The government wants to cut the number of students with public funding recruited by “poorer quality” private colleges offering sub-degree courses. More...

By John Morgan. Ed Miliband and Labour still see a graduate tax as the right “long-term” policy for university funding despite announcing £6,000 fees as their short-term goal, according to Liam Byrne. More...

By Philip G. Hultin. The excerpt in University Affairs from Peter MacKinnon’s book University Leadership and Public Policy in the Twenty-First Century: A President’s Perspective presented an idealized vision of university governance that I think most of us basically agree with: legislation has established the structures of Canadian public universities, and universities should be run as the framers of this legislation intended. Boards of governors are indeed “empowered to supervise and decide on university finances, business and property” while senates “have plenary authority for establishing and supervising academic programs and activities.” This sounds like a perfectly reasonable, peaceful and collegial way to run a university – if indeed it were actually the way things were run. More...