Summer schools can ‘wipe out’ social disadvantage
Young people who attend summer schools are significantly more likely to go to university, research by the Sutton Trust suggests.
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Wondering where to study? Ask mum - or a mate
University applicants are most likely to turn to their friends and families for advice about where to study, a survey of over 2,000 people suggests.
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To get ahead, forget about grades and focus on ‘attitude’
More than half of employers believe that graduates have unrealistic expectations of working life and more than four in 10 believe they lack the necessary interpersonal skills.
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Inside Higher Ed: Religion, Ignored
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
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Welsh funding council unveils radical plan to force down fees
Welsh universities risk having their student numbers cut by up to almost 60 per cent if they do not reduce their fees in 2013-14, it has been announced.
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NUS proposes alternatives to a royal yacht
The National Union of Students has proposed 10 alternative uses for the ?60 million that ministers apparently wanted invested in a royal yacht for the Queen’s jubilee.
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Fee hike will leave government facing ‘huge liabilities’ in 30 years
Students enrolling at university in 2012-13 will have to earn salaries of ?50,000 a year immediately after graduating if they are to pay off their student loan debt before the 30-year government...
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Shell announces closure of UK R&D base
Oil giant Shell is to close its main UK research and development base, moving the laboratory activities overseas.
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Reforms dissected in new documentary
A member of the Browne Review panel has expressed frustration that its plans for fees and funding were not met with a “more favourable” response by government, adding that the reforms subsequently...
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Judge throws out student’s challenge to OIA
A medical student who twice failed his final-year exams has lost a legal battle against the decision not to award him a degree.
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Oxford rocked by death of physicist
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said academics at the institution have been left “profoundly saddened and shocked” by the death of a professor of astrophysics.
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Rise in number of students getting a first or 2:1
The number of firsts and 2:1s awarded by UK universities has continued to rise, now accounting for almost two thirds of undergraduates completing their first degree.
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One in eight UK scientists has witnessed research fraud
Research misconduct is “alive and well” at UK universities, the British Medical Journal has claimed.
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New dawn in the West after former Thames Valley leaves the at-risk list
V-c forecasts sunshine for a leaner, more fiscally sound University of West London. Jack Grove writes
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Stormy waters ahead as 'disruptive forces' sweep the old guard
Online education will turn the academy inside out, argue US authors. Sarah Cunnane reports