The National Union of Students (NUS) has warned that higher education funding cuts in England and Wales could be a dangerous portent of things to come in Scotland. Lord Mandelson recently announced more financial cutbacks in his grant letter to the Hi...
Wed 20 Jan 2010 by Constantine Innemée | Read more »
Humanities research could be under threat as the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) considers altering its research funding model which decides the level of funding that is awarded to universities. In a Hefce announcement made earlie...
Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Madeleine Battersby | Read more »
An audit of the drop-out rates at London Metropolitan University has shown that the institution has been over-funded by more than £50m since 2005. The university is expected to receive an £18m reduction in teaching budgets as well as being...
Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Laura Kay Robertson | Read more »
Red tape in universities has been slashed by more than a fifth in the last four years, according to new research. Bureaucratic practices have been cut by 21 per cent since 2004, in the universities surveyed by research group PA consulting. The resear...
Wed 11 Feb 2009 by Nina Conlon | Read more »