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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.
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8 Sep 17
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.
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27 Aug 17
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...
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17 Aug 17
The UK’s biggest further education provider Learndirect blamed government funding cuts for a highly critical Ofsted report, out today.
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16 Aug 17
The top rate of interest on student loans will go up to 6.1% this year as planned, the government has confirmed.
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10 Aug 17
Fewer young people think they are likely to go into higher education because of concern over costs, research from The Sutton Trust suggests.
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22 May 17
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.
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12 Jan 17
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...
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21 Nov 16
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...
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12 Nov 15
Will the changes outlined in the higher education green paper empower disadvantaged students, or hamper efforts to improve social mobility?
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12 Aug 15
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.
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21 Jul 15
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...
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28 May 14
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...
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15 Aug 13
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
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17 Jul 13
Why are some young people deterred from applying to university by tuition fees, while others appear unconcerned? New research suggests that parental earnings and education are strong influencing...