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...
1 mars 2015
1 mars 2015
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...
1 mars 2015
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...
1 mars 2015
Universities told to double number of poorer students
By Nicola Harley. Universities have been told to double the number of disadvantaged students they admit, in a move that has angered many of Britain's top academic institutions. Read more...
1 mars 2015
Ed Miliband's tuition fees pledge risks 'intergenerational envy'
By Steven Swinford. Ed Miliband's appeal to students risks will "pitch young people against older people", the government's older people's Ros Altmann tsar says. Read more...
1 mars 2015
Nicola Sturgeon forces universities to admit more poor children
By Simon Johnson. The First Minister announces the creation of a new "widening access" commission amid concerns that middle-class children with better exam results will be squeezed out of a university place. Read more...
1 mars 2015
Labour's back is against the wall over university fees
By Nick Hillman. With just over two months until the election, Labour still doesn't know whether it wants a graduate tax, a cut in tuition fees, or a delay until they know better. Read more...
1 mars 2015
Foreign students 'vital for UK's future prosperity'
By Josie Gurney-Read. Business leaders have called for an increase in opportunities for qualified international graduates to remain in the UK following graduation. Read more...
1 mars 2015
Hannah Arendt: thinking versus evil
By. Jon Nixon asks what Arendt’s work can tell us about the value of universities as places of thinking together. More...
1 mars 2015
Seven myths of university teaching
By. Paul Ashwin unpicks some cherished nostrums, from Hollywood-style star turns at the podium to the much-exaggerated death of the lecture. Teaching is creative, intellectually challenging and rewarding, but it is also elusive and complex. This makes it rich territory for the development of myths that offer a damaging view of university teaching – myths that are often supported by the ways in which teaching is presented, evaluated and rewarded. More...
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