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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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...
Universities will have to justify vice-chancellor salaries and could be fined for paying excessive amounts, as part of proposals to cut higher education costs.
The University of Manchester’s announcement in May that it was to make 171 staff redundant took many higher education watchers by surprise. Its reasons for the decision were strikingly diverse...
Labour has promised to write off the student fees of any university starters this autumn as part of its bid to lift £38bn worth of debt from student’s shoulders.
Brexit and government plans to increase regulations faced by international students applying to UK universities could cost the country up to £2bn every year, the Higher Education Policy...
Theresa May’s vision of a Britain that works for everyone can only be achieved if people can retrain and develop new skills later in life through improved lifelong learning, according to a group of...
Nearly nine out of ten students at university and colleges in the UK are satisfied with their course, an annual poll for the Higher Education Funding Council for England has found.
The government’s decision to scrap maintenance grants and replace them with loans will increase the debt burden faced by poorer students but do little to improve the public finances, according...
The Treasury has seriously mishandled the new fee regime for universities, resulting in zero expected savings for the public coffers. And the chancellor’s scrapping of controls on student...
As A-level students contemplate their results, better information is needed on the potential benefits of a university education to both the individual and the economy
