Budget 2015: fees can rise for universities with ‘high-quality teaching’
Chancellor George Osborne also announces scrapping of student maintenance grants and plans to make graduates pay more for loans through repayment threshold freeze
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Students: raising hell since the Middle Ages
You might not think it, but students in the 14th and 15th century could teach today’s cohort a thing or two about tearing up the town, writes Matthew Reisz
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Academics call on University of Manchester to divest from fossil fuels
Author Jeanette Winterson among 96 signatories of letter to board of governors
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Marco Rubio calls for US higher education overhaul
Republican presidential hopeful wants radical reform of university system
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Budget 2015: Five things for universities to watch out for
Pension relief, salary sacrifice schemes and higher education budgets could be targeted by George Osborne, says Jack Grove
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The secret to developing university leaders
Why are certain employers hotbeds for the creation of higher education leaders, asks John Gill
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UCU and Unite members reject pay offer
Two unions reject 1 per cent offer, but Unison and GMB get behind it
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Graduate employability data no way to measure teaching quality
Using employability data to assess a university’s teaching is ‘deeply problematic’, says Graham Gibbs
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US faculty unions under threat
Supreme Court to consider whether educators are obliged to pay union fees
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News blog: Yanis Varoufakis replaced by ex-University of Kent academic
Academic and former finance minister succeeded by Euclid Tsakalotos as Greece debt crisis continues, writes deputy news editor John Morgan
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BTEC students ‘less likely to gain top degrees’, suggests study
HEA-commissioned report says those with vocational background may need more support, but also warns against seeing such qualifications as inferior
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Top Canadian scientist leaving country for UK over ‘worrisome’ research cuts
Robert Brownstone will take up the role of chair of neurosurgery at University College London
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Baroness Amos: emulate US on racial diversity in leadership
Next director of Soas says UK higher education can learn much from across the Atlantic
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Put flexibility at core of part-time provision, universities told
Many part-time students forced to miss part of their course, HEA survey finds
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Cuts to Disabled Students' Allowances back on agenda
Government reductions could leave universities to fund most help for disabled students