By Melinda Lewis and William Elliott III. As previous posts in this series have shown, the crisis in student borrowing is not extraordinary debt loads; those are relatively rare and sometimes not even that harmful. The real college debt crisis is in how student borrowing may be compromising higher education’s potency as an engine of equal opportunity. More...
By . “Statistics on the conditions of minority boys and young men in the United States are grim and familiar,” writes Fredrick C. Harris in a new Governance Studies paper, “The challenges of My Brother’s Keeper.” A recent demographic analysis estimates that approximately 1.5 million black men, in particular, are “missing” or have “disappeared” from communities across the country. More...
By . The green paper has a lot to say about supporting disadvantaged students - we need to keep the conversation going. More...
By Liz Lightfoot. If you want to do a master’s degree but need to keep costs down, studying in Europe may be a solution. Over the past five years there has been an explosion in the number of graduate programmes taught in English at universities in non-English speaking nations. More...
By Jon Henley. Since voting to introduce quotas for EU citizens, Switzerland has been cut off from academic funding and international talent. More...
By . A huge flowering of creativity is focused on the minor inconveniences of the cash-rich and time-poor. That’s why we need proper funding for science. More...
By Nadia Khomami. Indian and Chinese pupils more than twice as likely to go to university, reveals Institute for Fiscal Studies. More...
By Emma Howard. Institutions with endowments worth £115m are withdrawing their investments from fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Paris. More...
By Hannah Qurashi. What other travel opportunities are there for students who don’t get to spend a year abroad. More...
By Richard Adams. Shakeup will see universities that rank high on student satisfaction, teaching quality and employment outcomes permitted to charge more. More...
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