Fees and Charging: Immigration and visas consultation response

How do we save ‘Widening Participation’?

We don’t talk about widening participation quite as much as we used to. Back at the time of the Dearing Review and New Labour’s commitment to a 50% target and the economic and social benefits of mass higher education, we took it for granted. But not...
New strategy for new times

New strategy for new times

In case it passed you by we’ve just had “living wage week”. Almost every cause gets a day or a week dedicated to it nowadays, and Nov 4th–8th 2013 was the moment we were supposed to turn our attention to the living wage. It’s a serious issue, of course. Low pay is a...

Witty’s arrows of outrageous fortune

By opting for a ‘sector not postcode’ approach, Andrew Witty suggests a different path for universities to boost economic growth than his predecessors. Read Andy Westwood’s blog on The Guardian Higher Education Network –...