by CDBU Admin | Feb 21, 2020 | Admissions, Horizon, News round-up, Uncategorized, Vice-chancellor pay, Widening access
This week has seen another round of strikes by academics, while UK universities come under pressure to reform the admissions process UK ‘could only join Horizon Europe with transition extension Times Higher Education, 21/02/2020, John Morgan The UK will only be...
by CDBU Admin | Jan 24, 2020 | Admissions, Free speech, News round-up, Racism, REF, Uncategorized, Vice-chancellor pay, Widening access
Attacks on free speech at our oldest university – and a revelation that there are no black academics in the most senior managerial ranks in UK higher education Oxford University professor given security guards for lectures after threats from transgender...
by CDBU Admin | Oct 6, 2019 | Marketisation, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding, Vice-chancellor pay
Norman Gowar was unimpressed by the Augar Review’s recommendations on student finance. He lays out an alternative proposal that would work for students, universities and taxpayers It is sad that the government’s attempts to marketise universities received scant...
by CDBU Admin | Oct 4, 2019 | Admissions, Augar Review, Grade inflation, National Union of Students, News round-up, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding, Vice-chancellor pay, Widening access
As figures show that half of young people now go to university, Labour has announced plans to limit the number of students universities can accept from private schools UUK president aims to show degree value ‘not all about money’ Times Higher Education,...
by CDBU Admin | Jul 5, 2019 | Essay mills, Free speech, News round-up, Office for Students, Tuition fees, Uncategorized, University funding, University governance, Vice-chancellor pay
Academic staff on casual contracts do twice the amount of work they are paid for, and a member of the House of Lords hopes to outlaw essay mills Scientists quit Nobel-winning project over authorship dispute Times Higher Education, 05/07/2019, David Matthews A...
by CDBU Admin | Jun 21, 2019 | News round-up, Pensions, TEF, Uncategorized, University funding, Vice-chancellor pay
The University of Reading is the latest to find that overseas campuses aren’t as lucrative as hoped, while Oxford has been blessed with a gift of £150m to create a new centre for the humanities Reading halves Malaysia campus workforce after £27 million loss...
