Fears recent tuition fee hike for ‘oversaturated’ subjects will limit access but improvements in autonomy and accreditation hailed

Urgent reforms to funding and regulation needed or universities will struggle to support Labour’蝉 economic ambitions, finds thinktank

Number of 18-year-olds applying to university reaches new high but anticipated drop in top A-level grades adds to uncertainty ahead of clearing period

Caught between academic and service roles, educational developers have struggled to define their exact remit. As AI raises questions about the value of HE, they should focus on implementing leaders’ pedagogical strategy in line with different academic cultures, say Claire Gordon and Samantha Smidt

FP10 will be ‘tightly connected’ to proposed European Competitiveness Fund in next long-term EU budget, commission says

Universities ‘still unprepared’ for market failure and should pay into scheme that can cover expenses, says OIA

Labour Mayor of London to urge ministers not to ‘pull the drawbridge up’ on international students as he embarks on trade tour of Africa

Government yet to articulate its vision for the sector after a year in power as political threats – rather than long-term thinking – shape its agenda, says outgoing UUK president

Research-intensive universities face ?315 million bill for proposed fee levy, adding to pressures caused by massive erosion of fee value, says lobby group

Single voice needed to coordinate work on local skills needs, argues new report, which says credit transfer easier to do at regional level

New regulations are due to take force next month but leaders are not doing enough on prevention and response, say Graham Towl and Clarissa DiSantis

THE’蝉 analysis reveals that a former Anglican teaching training college has again beaten the country’蝉 elite universities for student satisfaction