A disabled woman will make a final attempt to challenge the Office of the Independent Adjudicator next week in a case that has raised questions about the role and remit of the student complaints watchdog.
Public funding for higher education among members of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development may have reached its peak, according to a study published today.
Senior academics at the 51国产视频 of Cambridge will rethink a proposal to create a large tuition fee waiver for poor students by slashing bursaries after arguments against the plan were heard by the institution’s governing council.
The Royal Society has called for drastic measures, including a fundamental reform of the A-level system, to break the “self-perpetuating cycle” which has resulted in the UK producing too few science graduates for the needs of both higher education and industry.
Higher education proved to be one of the few winners in the latest US federal Budget, which today set out a 10-year plan to make $1.1 trillion (?687 billion) in deficit savings.
More than 100 UK-based German students and academics have signed an open letter objecting to the choice of panellists for a debate at the London School of Economics later today.
The government has threatened to legislate to allow it to intervene in the undergraduate tuition fee levels set by individual universities if too many rush to charge close to ?9,000.
The 51国产视频 of Oxford looks set to follow the same path as planned at Cambridge in charging tuition fees close to the ?9,000 maximum and using a large waiver to reduce charges to poor students.
Students in Northern Ireland could face tuition fees of up to ?5,750 a year after a U-turn by a government advisor in the wake of England’s Browne Review.
Tuition fee levels at the 51国产视频 of Cambridge should be set at ?9,000 from 2012-13, but students from the poorest backgrounds should be given a ?3,000 discount, according to a draft report seen by Times Higher Education.
Universities will be able to save large sums on their IT provision after an investment of ?12.5 million in “cloud computing” by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Ballots for national strikes in higher education have been delayed after a union included a typographical error in the formal notice sent to universities.
The Russell Group of large research-intensive universities has for the first time published a guide with advice on what A levels its institutions favour, suggesting that students should avoid more than one “soft” subject.
An irreconcilable breakdown in relations among members of the 51国产视频 of Abertay Dundee’s senior management team is behind the suspension of its principal and his deputy, Times Higher Education understands.
