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19 Mar 19
Universities have warned that a no deal Brexit could disrupt “vital research” due to a lack of clarity over funding.
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17 Dec 18
The national deficit will increase by £12bn when the Office for National Statistics changes the way it records students loans.
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6 Nov 18
Universities are not providing value for money and need a “sharper focus” on graduate skills and outcomes, MPs have urged.
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16 Aug 18
The proportion of young people who think it is important to go to university has declined gradually over the past five years, according to figures released by an educational charity today.
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7 Aug 18
The UK economy needs more graduates to increase productivity and innovation, according to an advocacy organisation for universities.
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18 Jun 18
The higher education market is not working in the interest of students or taxpayers, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
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11 Jun 18
Interest rates on student loans must be reduced to prevent student debt reaching £1trn, a group of Lords has said.
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14 Mar 18
A deal that could have ended the strikes over university staff pensions collapsed in less than a day.
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2 Mar 18
The government gave England’s largest commercial further education provider ‘special treatment’ even though its performance was declining, a group of MPs concluded.
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23 Feb 18
Reducing fees for arts and humanities degrees lower than those for science, technology, engineering and maths will create unfair disparities between what graduates will have to pay, suggests...
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20 Feb 18
Conor Ryan looks back at the thorny history of tuition fees and offers his thoughts on the latest review of post-18 education announced by the prime minister this week.
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16 Feb 18
A trade union is calling for vice chancellors to be barred from attending remuneration committee meetings after 95% of the UK’s universities were found to allow vice-chancellors to go to them.
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12 Feb 18
School leavers should have access to a £8.5bn fund to help them continue learning, according to a proposal from the Institute of Education.
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19 Jan 18
Toby Young’s brief tenure on the board of the Office for Students should prompt the education secretary to reflect while choosing a replacement, argues the Institute for Government’s Daniel Thornton.
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12 Jan 18
The benefits of international students are ten times greater than the costs, adding £20.3bn to the economy, research has revealed.
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10 Jan 18
The Department for Education has been urged to preserve the independence of the Office for Students following the resignation of Toby Young from its board.
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8 Dec 17
Some students could be being “mis-sold” degree courses, government auditors have suggested in a critical report on the higher education market.
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23 Nov 17
While Philip Hammond's funding commitments to education in the Budget were positive it will take more than cash to get education right, says Reform's Emilie Sundorph.
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8 Nov 17
The government should introduce measures to redistribute revenue in favour of the young who “have been left behind for too long”, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has said today.
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18 Oct 17
Tuition fees should be cut and interest rates lowered but the repayment threshold should remain at current levels, according to the Centre for Policy Studies.
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16 Oct 17
UK universities’ “knock-on impact” of nearly £100bn to the UK economy and almost a million jobs should not be “taken for granted”, a membership organisation said...
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9 Oct 17
CIPFA has teamed up with the membership organisation Association of Accounting Technicians to deliver a new apprenticeship programme.
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3 Oct 17
Prime minister Theresa May’s reforms to the student finance system will save graduates significant amounts of money but increase costs to the taxpayer by around 40%, Institute for Fiscal...
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18 Sep 17
The board that oversees Glasgow’s three further education colleges has dropped plans to award a 17% pay rise to a senior official.
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18 Sep 17
The chancellor could be planning to cut tuition fees saving students around £5,000 for the cost of their degree, according to reports.
19 Mar 19Universities have warned that a no deal Brexit could disrupt “vital research” due to a lack of clarity over funding.
18 Jun 18The higher education market is not working in the interest of students or taxpayers, the Public Accounts Committee has said.
2 Mar 18The government gave England’s largest commercial further education provider ‘special treatment’ even though its performance was declining, a group of MPs concluded.
23 Feb 18Reducing fees for arts and humanities degrees lower than those for science, technology, engineering and maths will create unfair disparities between what graduates will have to pay, suggests...
20 Feb 18Conor Ryan looks back at the thorny history of tuition fees and offers his thoughts on the latest review of post-18 education announced by the prime minister this week.
12 Feb 18School leavers should have access to a £8.5bn fund to help them continue learning, according to a proposal from the Institute of Education.
12 Jan 18The benefits of international students are ten times greater than the costs, adding £20.3bn to the economy, research has revealed.
23 Nov 17While Philip Hammond's funding commitments to education in the Budget were positive it will take more than cash to get education right, says Reform's Emilie Sundorph.
8 Nov 17The government should introduce measures to redistribute revenue in favour of the young who “have been left behind for too long”, Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable has said today.
16 Oct 17UK universities’ “knock-on impact” of nearly £100bn to the UK economy and almost a million jobs should not be “taken for granted”, a membership organisation said...
18 Sep 17The board that oversees Glasgow’s three further education colleges has dropped plans to award a 17% pay rise to a senior official.
