Coalition government ministers have written to England鈥檚 funding council and the Office for Fair Access asking them to develop a 鈥渟hared strategy鈥 on helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
By Susan Woodward for Campus Review
One of the longest-serving vice-chancellors in the UK higher education sector has announced he will retire next year to pursue activities including a master鈥檚 degree in philosophy.
Private school pupils are three times more likely than their state-educated peers to reach the high-achieving AAB grade threshold at A level that affords entry to 鈥渢he most selective universities鈥,...
Confidence in the graduate jobs market has dipped among final-year students and salary expectations have stagnated as universities prepare to introduce fees of up to 拢9,000 a year in the autumn.
By Kaustuv Basu for Inside Higher Ed
Debate on social mobility is too focused on university access, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has argued.
More than half of the UK students who took part in Erasmus in 2010-2011 come from just 20 universities, most of which are Russell Group institutions.
The University and College Union has condemned plans by the University of Sussex to 鈥減rivatise鈥 some 235 of the 2,200 jobs at the institution.
An associate editor of a leading Elsevier journal has resigned, claiming the publisher is 鈥渄enying developing countries access to research findings鈥.
Universities UK is appealing to the prime minister to remove overseas students from the net migration count, ahead of a possible backlash against the sector arising from the next batch of immigration...
This provocative text may be just what isolated political theory needs, argues Matthew Flinde
Felipe Fern谩ndez-Armesto is stirred by the tale of a pastry chef who laid claim to an Iberian throne
This book sets out to retell the history of the intimate relationship between broadcasting and domesticity. Set against a backdrop of changing social relations from the 1930s to the present day, it...
Let's be honest. It's hard to get excited about car parks. That probably accounts for the paucity of serious studies about them. To make matters worse, car parks - known in the US as parking lots -...