The Liberal Democrat policy of opposing tuition fees is “simply no longer feasible” in the current economic climate, Vince Cable said today in a statement to the House of Commons.
The tuition fee cap should be scrapped, “blanket subsidies” for courses ended and universities freed to compete for students in one of the most radical overhauls of the sector ever.
Alan Ryan proposes that there should be no cap on tuition fees, grants for the talented poor should return and universities should lose their safety net
Recent studies reveal tuition costs do not deter students from lower socio-economic groups. Their decision not to go into higher education, argues Peter Urwin, is made much earlier in their schooling
An investigation into senior staff at London Metropolitan University has concluded that there is no case for disciplinary action following the financial crisis that engulfed the institution.
There is “no evidence” that a Nigerian graduate accused of attempting to blow up a plane on Christmas Day last year was radicalised while studying at University College London, an independent review has concluded.
This 15th-century Islamic spherical astrolabe - the only complete example of its kind to survive - is one of the most striking objects in the University of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science.
The UK’s second Nobel award in two days attests to the research excellence that will be endangered if the research budget is slashed in the forthcoming Comprehensive Spending Review, scientists have warned.
Degree-course fees are likely to escalate rapidly and could reach as much as five times the current sum if the existing cap is lifted, an education charity has warned.
The University of Gloucestershire has lost a tribunal case brought by a manager who claimed she was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the state of the institution’s finances.
The president of the University of Chicago has defended the notion of a wide-ranging university education that cultivates the “habit of mind to integrate ideas”, in the face of employers’ demands for “specialised knowledge”.
England could become the most expensive country in the world in which to study at a public university in light of Lord Browne of Madingley’s review of fees and funding, the main lecturers’ union has warned.
A new shadow minister could be battling the government on higher education policy this autumn after David Lammy confirmed he was running for the shadow Cabinet.
