by CDBU Admin | Mar 22, 2019 | Academic freedom, Free speech, News round-up, Uncategorized, Widening access
In this week’s news round-up, the number of English universities with operating deficits has risen to 32 – but the economy sees a net benefit from overseas students who stay Open University gave away £13 million in severance payments last year despite claiming they...
by CDBU Admin | Feb 15, 2019 | Academic freedom, Free speech, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding
Struggling universities are cutting staff – and a survey reveals just how unpopular TEF is More job cuts on cards unless tuition fee cap lifted, v-c warns Times Higher Education, 15/02/2019, Jack Grove A sector leader has warned that more leading UK universities...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 18, 2019 | Academic freedom, Free speech, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, Widening access
There is controversy over leaked plans to end loans to students with three Ds or less, and one university is shutting students out of campus libraries for failing to pay rent Oxford places ban on donations and research grants from Huawei The Guardian, 18/01/2018,...
by CDBU Admin | Jul 21, 2018 | Academic freedom, Guest blog, Marketisation, Office for Students, Tuition fees, University funding
Guest post by Prof G.R.Evans In the last few years there have been radical changes in the way English higher education is funded and regulated. That has had negative consequences not only for students but also at the receiving end of funding, where higher education...
by EH | Oct 29, 2013 | Academic freedom, Uncategorized
Report in the Guardian today regarding how increasing visa restrictions are compromising UK HE. “When organisers of a workshop held earlier this month at All Souls College, Oxford, invited an eminent Algerian academic to be a keynote speaker, they assumed his...
by webmaster | May 12, 2013 | Academic freedom, Guest blog
guest post by Prof Sir John Meurig Thomas (Materials Science, Cambridge) CDBU welcomes a diversity of views. Please contact us if you would like to be part of the conversation. This article is a slightly modified form of one that appears in Angewandt Chemie 2013 the...
