YouGov poll for THE: public opposition to 拢9K fees outweighs support
But polling also finds balance of public opinion is against Labour policy and tuition fees rated low among voting priorities
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The Russell Group鈥檚 power over English education must be wielded more wisely
Overemphasis of traditional academic silos is not preparing young people to address the environmental, political and biomedical abyss opening up before us, says Eric Macfarlane
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Tuition fees could pay a political price
Higher education policy could easily be drawn into the deal-making and compromises that are routine in hung parliaments, says Nick Pearce聽
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Labour should set science budget 鈥榝or full Parliament鈥
A Labour government should set a science and research budget for the entire Parliament, and give universities a bigger role in driving local growth.
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Generational and class gaps in attitudes on fees, polling finds
Tuition fees rank marginally above animal rights on list of voting priorities聽鈥 but young people assign higher importance
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Academic recognition for public policy work is slowly gathering pace
To tackle the challenge of implementing evidence-based policy, change is also needed in the university sector, says Gavin Costigan
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University financial health check 2017: future prospects?
UK universities face uncertainty over the impact of Brexit and the TEF, the future for tuition fees and a pensions deficit. Which institutions have the financial clout and diversified portfolios to...
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Ed Balls interview: 鈥榃hen the dust settles, people see the truth鈥
Gordon Brown鈥檚 former right-hand man talks to John Morgan about his return to Harvard, Labour鈥檚 higher education 鈥榝ailure鈥 and a political comeback
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Campus close-up: 鈥楢uthoritative voice鈥 set to project on the world stage
UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity 鈥 and dispel a few myths, too
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Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth, and the Politics of Stigma, by Jason Whitesel
Sally R. Munt lauds an ethnographic study of men who are 鈥榦ut鈥 about their weight
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University schools 鈥榯old to improve鈥
A string of universities sponsoring school academies have been told to raise their games in light of poor standards.聽
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Labour launches 鈥榯echnical degrees鈥 policy
The Labour Party will introduce new 鈥渢echnical degrees鈥 if it is elected at next May鈥檚 general election.
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Private colleges better value over universities鈥 鈥榬idiculously long vacations鈥, former minister says
For-profit higher education providers could 鈥渞eally strike a chord鈥 with students worried about the value for money of traditional 拢9,000-a-year degrees with 鈥渞idiculous鈥 long vacations, according to...
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Liberal with good advice
One absentee from the Labour conference was a certain protege of Schools Minister Lord Adonis who, in years gone by when he was an academic, had encouraged a student to apply for a job as an economic...
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Oxford teaching and the 拢16K question
How does the university calculate the real cost of undergraduate education?