Postgraduate education to be addressed by independent commission
An independent inquiry has been launched to investigate postgraduate education.
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Essex names new vice-chancellor
The University of Essex has appointed a senior manager at Durham University as its new vice-chancellor.
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FE colleges to win over half of ‘core and margin’ places
Further education colleges are set to receive more student places from the price-based “margin” than universities after the initial allocations were revealed by the government.
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Ebdon: 'I would not rule out the nuclear option as Offa head'
Les Ebdon has used his first appearance before MPs as the government’s preferred choice for the post of director of fair access to lay down the gauntlet to highly-selective universities with “patchy...
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Immigration minister wants more scrutiny of ‘value’ of foreign students
Expanding the number of international students in the UK is not necessarily a good thing, immigration minister Damian Green has suggested.
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Racial antidote to apartheid poison has unwanted side effects
South African institution's positive-discrimination policy stirs up fresh debate. Dan Newling reports
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Grant winners
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences? Award winner: David J. Gower? Institution: Natural History Museum? Value: ?194,949Insights from snakes into vertebrate visual evolution? Award...
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Tell them how they're doing - before, during and after
Tutors urged to improve assessment and feedback to help students adjust. Sam Creighton writes
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The unintended consequences of policies that disregard implications
The British Sociological Association's next head tells Matthew Reisz about his plans and priorities
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Study hard for smooth transition to job market
It may no longer be true - if it ever was - that obtaining a degree will guarantee you a job, but being "academically engaged" may mean that students have a smaller chance of being unemployed, in...
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News in brief
United StatesFire report points finger at UCLAA report into a 2008 laboratory fire that killed a 23-year-old research assistant at the University of California, Los Angeles is far more critical of...
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A frustrated Obama is still hoping to enact change
With Dream Act faltering, president links federal aid to 'responsible' fees. Sarah Cunnane writes
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Rise aims to shine more brightly on African sector
A project that funds African academics whose careers are "stuck" because they lack the time or money for postgraduate study is asking the World Bank to help it grow tenfold.
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Warwick and Monash team up for global strategy
The two universities aim to offer global market 'best of both worlds'. John Morgan reports
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Demos: widen participation by scrapping 'overly generous' student loans
The coalition government must take the tough political decision to make student loans less generous if it wants to fix the "central impediment" to an "efficient, competitive and high-quality" higher...