*No state funding for under 5-rated research *New 6-rating for super-elite *Students to vets quality A succession of ministers, advisers and experts have had a hand in the higher education white...
Blunkett's 'Alistair Campbell' to advise Blair on education David Blunkett's former spin-doctor Conor Ryan was last night appointed Downing Street's education advisor. He is to replace Andrew Adonis...
IT IS ironic that Mr Adonis should choose Oxford classics as emblematic of Oxbridge exclusivity (THES, November 28) when this subject has made leaps and bounds in attracting state school pupils. To...
A Class Act
Could the HE bill be Labour's poll tax? The THES looks at its implications and assesses its chances For the first time in history a UK prime minister has staked his premiership on higher education....
Could the HE bill be Labour's poll tax? The THES looks at its implications and assesses its chances For the first time in history a UK prime minister has staked his premiership on higher education....
Blair not bent on top-up fees, says Clarke Downing Street is "not wedded" to the idea of top-up fees for university students, the education secretary, Charles Clarke, told MPs yesterday. Though Tony...
Prime minister Tony Blair held a secret meeting this week with the leading candidates to introduce top-up fees in a bid to galvanise support for the policy amid growing opposition. Mr Blair called...
ANNE Campbell criticises Cambridge for an admissions system which gives "half the undergraduate places available each year to the 9 per cent of students" who have been to independent schools (THES,...
SDP Oxbridge set makes running on top-up fees Downing Street is seeking to defuse the growing row over university top-up fees amid fears that allies of Gordon Brown are using it to drive a wedge...
In the second of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Alison Goddard considers the case for top-up and differential fees. Despite prime minister Tony Blair's...
Andrew Adonis's diagnosis (THES, October 10) of the influence of Oxbridge is sound but does not go far enough. No other country has two universities which are so uniquely different from the rest of...
Despite paying lip-service to open access, Oxbridge remains a bastion of the upper professional classes. If it truly wants to admit more state-school students, there is plenty it can do, argues...
Britain's top universities are dominated by a supergroup of students from private or grammar schools and there is not much that new Labour can do about it, argues Andrew Adonis One country, two...
The regular glossy magazine from my alma mater slithered through the letter-box yesterday. Success stories abound and there is always a feature on distinguished alumni not only from the world of...