…increased the cap on undergraduate tuition fees for UK and EU students from £3,375 to £9,000 per year, while scrapping teaching grants paid by the government to universities for most…
Keeping up with the Schmidts
…David Cameron, the prime minister, calls a “Germanic approach”, they have increased by half the budget subsidising workplace training and introduced £1,500 ($2,500) grants for small businesses to take on…
Oxbridge uplift disguises a drop in the size of the average UK endowment
David Matthews reports for the Times Higher on the Sutton Trust endowments research. Average endowments at UK universities, excluding Oxford and Cambridge, have shrunk during the past decade, according to…
ED MILIBAND UNVEILS PLAN FOR TECHNICAL DEGREES IF LABOUR WINS 2015 ELECTION
…will be opened by Miliband, says that this needs to be increased to 200,000 or 300,000. Miliband will say in his speech to the summit that the new technical degrees…
Rich teenagers still dominate top universities
…gap in university admissions is growing with you men from disadvantaged backgrounds the least likely to obtain a university place. Will Hutton, who chairs the Independent Commission on Fees, said…
Educational backgrounds of politicians do not reflect society at large
…backbenchers (16%) and are more likely to have been to Oxbridge (23% compared to 15%). And while the proportion of Conservative MPs from independent schools has fallen from 70% in…