By . Student teachers must still have the option of taking an academic qualification alongside their classroom training. That is the view of the Universities’ Council for the Education of Teachers (Ucet) in written evidence to the government-commissioned Carter Review of Initial Teacher Training. More...
By . The number of UK students applying to medical and dentistry schools, veterinary courses and Oxbridge has fallen by 5 per cent, new figures show. More...
By . Employers also release new modelling of pensions proposals. In a briefing document published on 21 October, universities explain for the first time how staff would be affected if they have to preserve the final salary scheme run by the Universities Superannuation Scheme. More...
By . University College London and the Institute of Education, University of London, are to merge on 2 December, it has been confirmed. UCL’s council officially approved its decision to merge with its Bloomsbury neighbour at a meeting on 20 October. More...
By . Flemish government proposes rise despite student protests.
The majority of the approximately 230,000 undergraduates in the Dutch-speaking Belgian province will now pay €890 (£705), up from €619, in annual “inschrijvingsgeld” – registration charges that are effectively tuition fees. More...
By . Higher education legislation should be a priority for the new government after 2015, according to England’s funding council. More...
By . Public funding for universities should be scrapped and replaced by graduates paying an earnings levy to their institutions, according to a thinktank. More...
By . A business leader has said he is “appalled” to see universities end up as “victims of political point-scoring” and a “meaningless” migration target. More...
By . The abolition of student number controls presents a “unique opportunity” to increase the number of poorer students going into higher education.
Alan Milburn, the former Labour minister who chairs the coalition government’s social mobility commission, makes the argument in the commission’s latest annual report, published today. More...
By Melonie Fullick. I’m taking some time out in this post, to talk a bit self-indulgently about my approach to blogging – partly because I’m still asked pretty regularly about how and why I got started with writing a blog. I suppose it seems a bit random; this still isn’t really a common activity in academic circles, so it’s not something most people think about doing. On a related note, I’m genuinely surprised to find that this blog is a finalist (for the third time, even!) in its category in the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. So that’s prodded me to ponder how I ended up “here”, as it were. Read more.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)
