By John Morgan. Universities UK has called for “stability” and “political consensus” from an incoming government on fees and funding. More...

By John Morgan. The UK’s spending on higher education has fallen once again, with Canada taking over as the world’s biggest spender on universities. More...

By John Morgan. Labour has pledged to remove international students from the net migration target and break with the coalition’s “nonsense” policy. More...

By John Morgan. The government has postponed controversial cuts to the Disabled Students’ Allowance until 2016-17. Greg Clark, the universities and science minister, made a written ministerial statement on DSA this morning announcing that changes to non-medical help will be postponed until 2016-17. More...

By Barry Glassner. ‘Going private’ is no financial panacea, say Barry Glassner and Morton Schapiro. It’s something that university leaders in the US have been familiar with for years, and as a recent article in these pages (“Student finance: the lessons we must learn from American history”, 21 August) noted, there are lessons to be learned from the American experience. More...

By Matthew Reisz. Major challenges facing early career researchers have been highlighted in a new report. Published by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, Support for Arts and Humanities Researchers Post-PhD presents the results of a detailed survey highlighting the kind of issues faced by researchers in the arts and humanities in the period immediately following doctoral study. More...