Simon Baker was data editor. He had been at Times Higher Education since May 2010 and was previously news editor. Before joining THE, he worked for eight years as a reporter and news editor at the Press Association. He studied at the University of Bristol for a BSc in economics andĀ politics and also holds a postgraduate diploma in newspaper journalism from City University.
The head of University College London's Australian campus has been assured by the nation's immigration minister that it will benefit from relaxed student-visa rules, after concerns that it would be excluded.
Funding chiefs have made a series of changes to the plans for student number controls in 2012-13 in an attempt to alleviate concerns about their impact on social mobility, āvulnerableā subjects and specialist colleges.
The number of students at UK universities has gone up by almost a third in the last 10 years with those coming from outside the European Union more than doubling, according to a new report.
Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institutionās senate.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has called for "serious consideration" to be given to a proposal for a government-backed loan for taught postgraduate students.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has appointed former employment lawyer Chuka Umunna as the new shadow business secretary following a cabinet reshuffle today.
All business people should be able to āknock on the doorsā of a university and ask for training and help with research, David Willetts has told the Conservative Party conference.
The government has come in for fierce criticism from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in strongly-worded submissions to the White Paper consultation.
Forty university chaplains have signed a letter criticising the coalition governmentās White Paper for seeing higher education in āhighly individualā terms.
Labourās plan to cap tuition fees at Ā£6,000 would be of greatest benefit to graduates in their 50s earning Ā£72,500 a year, according to an analysis.
Hughes issues plea to win back students' trust as party conference aims to overcome its 'sense of bereavement' over tuition fees. Simon Baker reports from Birmingham
