The gradual withdrawal of state support for universities has been the largest, and quietest, privatisation in UK history, and most people don’t even know about it.
Why a recent report, backed by university staff, argues that institutions should start offering students places after they’ve received their A-level results.
Robert Ralphs, Manchester Metropolitan University; Mike Salinas, Manchester Metropolitan University et Rebecca Askew, Manchester Metropolitan University
Students used to take drugs to get high, now they are using them to get better grades.
A strike around a specific employment issue can easily develop a momentum of its own and become a catalyst for a much wider expression of dissatisfaction.
Local residents of St Andrews feel university growth has come at too high a cost – it’s time for local councils and universities to overcome the divide between town and gown.
As a minister in the coalition government, Willetts introduced £9,000 tuition fees. In an interview as he publishes a new book, he says the system is well-designed and fair.
Academics are often in the vanguard of the fight to preserve heritage buildings but they are losing the battle on home turf as universities shed their 1960s and 1970s concrete skins.