Respected Dickens biographer Claire Tomalin has come forward on the eve of the great author’s bicentenary to claim that UK pupils are no longer able to appreciate the classic works of great writers like Dickens and Shakespeare.
A new tuition fees commission has been set up to investigate the effects of the new higher education funding scheme, paying particular attention to the impact on students from poorer backgrounds. Will Hutton will lead the commission.
A battle between academia old and new has commenced, with New College, Oxford fighting the New College of the Humanities for exclusivity over its name. It’s all a little bit childish really…
Nearly half of all university academic staff in the UK are female, so why do women hold fewer than 1 in 5 of the most senior academic posts? We investigate the truth behind this shocking statistic.
Cambridge Defend Education has divided opinion with its tuition fees protests, its occupations and its interruption of a speech by Universities Minister David Willetts. With respected Cambridge professors stepping into the ring, we look at the arguments both for and against the controversial group.
Statistics released this week reveal a huge rise in the number of first class degrees being awarded by UK universities. But is it really a good thing, or are we starting to devalue degrees?
Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced plans to completely revamp Britain’s outdated and behind-the-times IT teaching, with a new curriculum coming into force as early as this September. We look into the details of the scheme and report on what the sceptics are saying…
As the deadline for UCAS university applications approaches, tuition fees have deterred more than 20,000 UK students from applying this year. Some groups are far more severely affected than others, we reveal.
