Masters market hots up
The LSE is charging over £8K for postgraduate courses - nearly three times more than other universities, a survey finds. Letitia Hughes reports A market in postgraduate fees for British...
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Lifting of fees cap may lead to bankruptcy
Universities could go bankrupt if the Government removes the cap on tuition fees - because they have little idea how much their degrees are worth or how much they cost to teach. This could mean that...
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League tables aid pupil choice
University applicants do pay attention to university guides, preliminary findings of a pilot study on the career paths of students have found. Kate Purcell of Warwick University's Institute for...
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E-assessment exercise
Pilot software for submitting research to the 2008 research assessment exercise was launched this week. This is the first time all submissions will be made electronically and institutions have until...
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Where are they now?
The Higher Education Statistics Agency is to retrospectively review the careers of 65,000 graduates three and a half years after they left higher education. Results from the study, conducted by the...
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Degree of success
Welsh graduates earn some 46 per cent more than workers with A levels, and more are in graduate jobs than the UK average, a new report from the Institute of Employment Studies reveals. In 2003-04,...
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Student cash gift call
Universities told to ask for donations on top of fees to pay for campus projects. Claire Sanders reports Universities should ask students for voluntary financial donations on top of tuition fees, a...
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Take control of a flight into the future
In the second of our series on popular courses, Jessica Shepherd climbs aboard a simulator to discover why aerospace engineering is on the up The bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000 marked an end...
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Grumpies survey field's slag heaps
Academics at RGS meeting launch 'impassioned rant' to halt advance of postmodern obscurantism, reports Mark Rodgers A debate by a group of self-styled "Grumpy Old Geographers" on the "pomposity" of...
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Inside track...
Damned statistics? The UK could soon be left with just 12 or so statistics departments, with dozens more condemned to serve as mere support staff for other academic fields, it was claimed this week....
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Ventures with business present gains and pains
The future of university expansion or a false hope? In the first of three articles, Claire Sanders looks at increasing employer involvement in higher education Employer-led higher education is still...
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Teamwork gets results on and off the pitch
Sports clubs have been quicker than other businesses to recognise the benefits to be gained from partnerships with universities. writes Huw Richards. Huddersfield University's two-year venture with...
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'Initiatives such as sheffield hallam's foundation degree require commitment from companies'
For the past year, Alan Partridge has been working with a consortium of employers to set up a foundation degree in metallurgy in partnership with Sheffield Hallam University. The aim is to launch the...
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Childcare tops the expansion agenda
The most significant growth in employer-led higher education is expected to come from the public sector, notably government investment in children's services and from police training. Sean Mackney,...
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Melbourne set to give Bologna model an Australian debut
In a radical break with its 150-year-old traditions, the University of Melbourne is to be the first in Australia to adopt the model set out in the Bologna Declaration. Instead of the focus on...