higher education

There are warnings that ‘universities could close and tuition fees rise unless the Government gives guarantees over Brexit’ after the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol speaks out. Talking to Sky News, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bristol, Professor Hugh Brady, wanted the Government to give both EU students and...

£9k is a LOT of money by anyone’s standards. But for a course you might not even like, it’s an even more staggering amount to comprehend. As university students, this is made all the more worse by the amount of work we all had to do before even reaching our...

The cost of living as a student, the cost of study for a student, and the total debt students come out of university with are all going up. They’ve been going up for years now. Housing prices have risen by nearly a quarter since 2009, according to NUS figures, the...

Following a recent article in The Guardian, which focused on higher education, and in particular the University of Nottingham’s (UoN) treatment of its academic staff, UoN has now released their official response. Last week The Guardian published an interview with two academic members of staff working at the University...

The impact of Brexit on Britain’s Higher Education institutions is to be examined by a group of MP’s. The Education Select Committee is set to examine how British universities will still remain competitive. It will not examine how Brexit will affect University research and funding. “The inquiry now gives...

The number of female academics employed on a full-time basis in higher education has increased by 5% since December 2013, a Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) report has shown. The report also highlights an increase in female professors, now accounting for 23% of professors within higher education. The total...

A national day of action took place on 18 September in protest of government proposals to replace maintenance grants with a loan system. Universities minister Jo Johnson, Chancellor George Osborne and London mayor Boris Johnson are among the MPs targeted by campaigners on Thursday. “An NUS called strike beat Thatcher...