The Guardian Postgraduate Guide for 2015 gives us a snapshot of courses available this year at UK universities, grouped into 52 subject areas. Altogether, it covers courses offered by nearly 2,000 departments. More...
Student fees are an invitation for graduates to emigrate
Zoe Williams makes some excellent points about the ill-conceived policy on student fees (The price of tuition fees?, 23 February). Compelling though they are, they are not sufficient to override the Tory philosophy of “user pays”. More...
We won't get more engineering students by lowering tuition fees
By Kel Fidler. Outreach in schools isn’t working either – engineering needs a rebrand that shows how valuable and exciting the subject really is. More...
Do we really want identikit universities?
By . There is broad agreement that we need universities to expand and diversify their role, so why are we allowing the Research Excellence Framework to force them all into the same mould. More...
What is the price of tuition fees? A generation’s potential and creativity
By . Today’s students will struggle to flourish as tomorrow’s citizens if they are saddled by debt – and Labour is yet to make this point. More...
Student loan write-offs will rise to £20bn by 2048-49, Labour warns
By Frances Perraudin. Party analysis says figures from Office for Budget Responsibility show the amount written off will jump from £2bn in 2044-45 under loans capped at £3,000. More...
Les Ebdon deserves praise for fighting for a level playing field in higher education
By . The director of the Office for Fair Access has disproved those who doubted him. Yet until every pupil has an equal opportunity to excel, there is still work to do. More...
Vince Cable: Labour’s tuition fees plan is financially illiterate
By Rosa Prince. Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has accused Labour of having a “financially illiterate” policy on university funding as Ed Miliband prepares to unveil plans to cut tuition fees by £3,000. Read more...
Ed Miliband's plans for £3,000 cut in tuition fees criticised by business groups and experts
By Christopher Hope, and Steven Swinford. The Labour leader is expected on Friday to unveil the party’s plans to cut annual tuition fees for students in England at an event in northern England. Read more...
The market – not Miliband – is key to our university challenge
By Allister Heath. It is not difficult to understand why so many young people are so upset. University fees have shot up, and yet the quality of higher education and the employability of graduates hasn’t improved. Read more...