Nobelist and ex-vaccines chief join newly established Aria Sir David MacMillan and Dame Kate Bingham join board as ‘high-risk, high-reward’ starts work Chris Havergal 1月 27日
English HE bill anticipated with focus on lifelong loans Government said to be aiming for ‘uncontroversial’ legislation on LLE, with future of plans to limit student entry unclear John Morgan 1月 27日
Germany’s ‘exploited’ student assistants waiting weeks to be paid Early taste of academic precarity reported in biggest-ever survey of student-employees, although rectors’ conference questions reliability of a union-commissioned study Ben Upton 1月 27日
‘Conflict-seeking’ OfS vows to reset engagement with universities Chief executive Susan Lapworth says regulator will ‘respond positively and practically’ to recommendations from highly critical report Jack Grove 1月 26日
Regional and gender gaps in English enrolment reach record levels Participation keeps going up, but significant equality issues remain Patrick Jack 1月 26日
Improved pay offer swiftly rebuffed by unions as strikes loom Unions ‘disappointed’ and say ‘marginally improved’ rise ranging from 5 per cent to 8 per cent would not fix sector’s problems Tom Williams 1月 26日
Quality Assurance Agency ‘not satisfactory’, regulator claims Agency rebuts Office for Students report which ‘substantially misrepresents’ role in assessing higher education providers, as major rift exposed Tom Williams 1月 26日
UK students increasingly skipping meals as cost of living rises New polling highlights ‘scandalous’ impact of financial pressures on student life Tom Williams 1月 26日
Anger as social sciences lose cash to STEM under REF rule change Sciences gain ?145 million that would have gone to humanities and social sciences under old system Jack Grove 1月 26日
Degree apprenticeships: a great UK invention that needs better nurture Amid growing global interest, policy must be driven by evidence, rather than knee-jerk reactions to loud voices, says Raheel Nawaz Raheel Nawaz 1月 26日
Gove: investment zones to leverage university research for growth Levelling up secretary confirms Sunak government’s change of approach on investment zones, after reports plan has stalled John Morgan 1月 25日
HE-led regional growth ‘needs shared culture and Boston model’ UK universities must think as one with civic leaders and businesses to boost regions as Boston peers have, says influential peer Lord O’Neill John Morgan 1月 25日
