In the May Budget, the government may look for ways to shift the costs of higher education from the taxpayer to the student.
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Gaining that required qualification to put on your CV is what counts to win a job in today’s “graduate economy”. On current trends, perhaps everyone will have a degree by the end of this century. Already…
As more people around the world head to university, the quality of teaching and research is coming under tighter scrutiny.
Is intellectual autonomy being sacrificed to an unworkable vision of financial autonomy for public universities?
Ever since the invention of the printed word, academics have been arguing about the proper place of technology in teaching. On one side are those who I’ll call the traditionalists who insist on the primacy…
By international standards, British universities have extraordinarily high levels of autonomy. They control all of their assets, they employ their own staff, renew their own leadership and governors and…
As MOOC mania approached its peak in 2012, Anant Agarwal, the president of the Massive Open Online Course platform edX, claimed: Online education for students around the world will be the next big thing…
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