higher education Articles

Few have described the challenge of the future as well as Britain's Royal Society: 'unless we grow smarter', says the society 'we will grow poorer'. And that is why we need to fix the broken finances of our nation's universities. As the Organisation for Economic...

Ed Miliband’s announcement committing a future Labour government to cutting university tuition fees by a third is a game changer in this election. Vice-chancellors will no doubt shout loudly about a funding shortfall. Yet they personally have been cocooned from the...

The changes Labour made to the nation's higher education left not only world-class universities but a world-class university system. Today we have seen, clear and present, that there is a real danger the whole system is now sliding off a cliff. It is not simply the...

University is the last place you would expect to encounter officially sanctioned bigotry. Indeed, for many young people the chance to go to uni is an opportunity to get away from the stultifying prejudice that characterises many of the small towns students leave...