Government funding for higher education is to be cut by 40 per cent over four years, suggesting that public funding for teaching in the arts, humanities and social sciences may come to an end.
The government has been warned of the potential for disastrous consequences if it does not pause for thought before embracing Lord Browne鈥檚 proposals for reform of higher education while implementing significant cuts in today鈥檚 Comprehensive Spending Review.
The president of Universities UK has told vice-chancellors to expect cuts of 拢4.2 billion in the government鈥檚 spending review 鈥 and warned that a huge funding gap is a 鈥渢errible danger鈥.
Students from poor backgrounds will receive help to attend university as part of a wider 拢7 billion 鈥渇airness premium鈥 announced today by Nick Clegg, the deputy prime minister.
A pound's worth of small change, held in a tin in the bursar's office, was transformed into a lump of metal when an incendiary bomb hit Bedford College on the night of 10-11 May 1941.
Lord Browne's review calls for "genuine competition for students between institutions of a kind which cannot take place under the current system". Here's how it would work:
Lord Browne's review of student fees and finance - if implemented in full - will have a huge impact on the structure of the sector. Here we examine the likely outcome for different types of institution of higher fees coupled with a massive loss of teaching funding following forthcoming cuts
Reactions to Lord Browne鈥檚 review of higher education funding and student finance are flooding in. Here we round up what different groups have been saying
The Liberal Democrat policy of opposing tuition fees is 鈥渟imply no longer feasible鈥 in the current economic climate, Vince Cable said today in a statement to the House of Commons.
The tuition fee cap should be scrapped, 鈥渂lanket subsidies鈥 for courses ended and universities freed to compete for students in one of the most radical overhauls of the sector ever.
Alan Ryan proposes that there should be no cap on tuition fees, grants for the talented poor should return and universities should lose their safety net
Recent studies reveal tuition costs do not deter students from lower socio-economic groups. Their decision not to go into higher education, argues Peter Urwin, is made much earlier in their schooling
An investigation into senior staff at London Metropolitan University has concluded that there is no case for disciplinary action following the financial crisis that engulfed the institution.
There is 鈥渘o evidence鈥 that a Nigerian graduate accused of attempting to blow up a plane on Christmas Day last year was radicalised while studying at University College London, an independent review has concluded.
This 15th-century Islamic spherical astrolabe - the only complete example of its kind to survive - is one of the most striking objects in the University of Oxford's Museum of the History of Science.
