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Lurking in the background

In his letter “No tuition fees on principle” (26 February), Jack Douglas makes a logical error that does not help his case.If university students are funded by loans repayable by those individuals...

No invitation necessary

The article “Social science ‘critical’ to innovation” (26 February) may have created an erroneous impression.The British Academy spans the social sciences and humanities and works with a range of...

Welsh should roam free

In a report for the ����Vlog Policy Institute last week, Welsh universities were warned that they would not necessarily see any benefit from scrapping the Welsh government tuition fee subsidy...

There be efficiencies

Remuneration is undoubtedly a contributing factor to UK higher education’s ability to attract and retain world-leading staff (“Performance-related pay is ‘way forward’”, News, 26 February). However,...

A welcome shift in tuition fees policy

Funding undergraduate education through the current combination of tuition fees and loans is dishonest, unfair, inefficient, unrealistic and damaging to the university. It is dishonest because it...

Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham - 5 March 2015

News in brief - 5 March 2015

Quality assuranceQAA heads to the MedUK higher education provision in Cyprus, Greece and Malta is to be reviewed by the Quality Assurance Agency. More than 20,000 students are enrolled in UK higher...

No business like business

Source: Getty/Alamy MontageBusiness-facingIn what those with an eye for a telling headline are already calling “A shock mission admission”, our Director of Corporate Affairs, Jamie Targett, has...

Bulk of postgraduates ‘ineligible for loans’

Student Funder’s chief executive says an analysis shows that more than half of prospective students will miss out on the new government scheme

Social sciences ups the PhD pace

REF data show big jumps in number of doctoral degree awards in some subjects

Digital study may push some to web addiction

Use of online tools runs the risk of students developing problems and harming their ability to study, research finds

EPSRC funding shifts power up energy research

Analysis reveals the winners and losers under ‘shaping capabilities’ programme

How to cultivate the Commons touch

Seeking impact? Undertake research that prepares the ground for key political debates, says ex-Westminster insider Meg Russell

Cranfield University: DREAM team set to dig deep into data

Students at a new doctoral training centre will use big data to tackle challenges such as extreme weather and population growth

Attitudes hold back region, inaugural MENA Universities Summit hears

At THE summit in Qatar, Gulf states hear that culture of entitlement must go