Graduates from wealthy families earn significantly more than their less affluent peers despite graduating with the same degrees from the same universities, research has found.
English universities are set to increase borrowing levels in order to mitigate government funding reductions and to upgrade facilities, an analysis of the financial health of the sector by credit...
Funding for research and the possibility for cross-border collaboration in research projects would be under threat if Britain was to leave the European Union, panellists at a Universities UK debate...
Government plans to introduce a new teaching framework for universities, linked to powers to increase tuition fees, must be carefully planned to avoid harming the sector’s reputation, according...
Universities will only be able to increase tuition fees above £9,000 in line with inflation if they meet standards in a new national Teaching Excellence Framework, universities minister Jo Johnson...
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills should redirect £500m from university grant funding into further education and extend the student loan system to FE students, the Policy...
The higher education participation rate in 2013/14 was 47%, four percentage points up on the preceding year, according to provisional estimates published by the Department of Business, Innovation and...
If society is to continue funding higher education through taxes, universities need to open up and work directly with local communities, to become problem-solvers and drivers of economic change.
The trebling of tuition fees appears unlikely to produce expected savings for the Exchequer. And graduates will repay twice as much, nursing debts well into their 50s. So what’s gone wrong?
Universities and colleges increased the amount they spend on widening participation by £61m last year, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Office for Fair Access (Offa)...