Labour’s first king’s speech for many years was designed to ‘get the country moving again’ - does it have the right ingredients to achieve this?
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Higher education institutions are not explicitly included within the UK’s anti-money laundering regulations.
The number of students studying languages in UK universities has plummeted in recent years but some creative thinking may help to reverse that trend.
The university strikes show how a dispute around a fairly technical employment issue, pensions, can develop a momentum of its own and become a catalyst for a much wider expression of dissatisfaction.
Universities need to protect people with different ideas.
When it comes to choosing a university, a positive personal experience is much more influential for students than rankings or league tables.
Traditional picket lines feel outdated now that work is no longer a place that you go, but a thing that you do.
Strike rules for international staff illuminates the intractable tensions that underpin the logic of universities.
From the outside, it might look like another case of a pension black hole problem hitting another UK institution. Not so.
Cities and universities can overcome social divides and create better places, but only if they work together.
The latest on those higher education reforms.
We asked three experts for their takes.
How to define the public role of universities in the age of post-truth populism.
Undemocratic? Bureaucratic? The EU and universities have plenty in common.
What is it like being an autistic academic?
Fake degrees are bad news for universities and employers.
UUK’s ‘Universities for Europe’ campaign is a welcome contribution to a debate that is inevitably partial.
The decision by the university membership body to campaign for Britain staying in the EU has implications for academics.
Universities are keenly awaiting more detail on the government’s planned Teaching Excellence Framework.
Labour’s much anticipated but yet-to-be confirmed policy to reduce the cap on university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000 a year will be highly expensive, could leave universities £10 billion out of…
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