Can this year’s graduates really expect record salaries?
New research suggests that the median starting salary for graduates will reach £30,000 for the first time this year.
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What’s really putting Indian students off UK universities?
The coalition’s policies are as much to blame as UKIP in creating the perception that the UK is hostile to overseas students.
Can Labour win over Cambridge?
Deriding Ed Miliband as an Oxbridge elitist is to miss the actual problem with Labour’s leadership.
Tuition fees set to rise again under new proposals
The NUS has called it the “latest in a long line of disappointing revelations”.
Is it really a good idea to treat students as consumers?
Universities may spend more money on marketing, but substance will always be more important than style.
Why £9,000 tuition fees have been a moral and economic disaster
The evidence is mounting that the argument for £9,000 tuition fees has failed – both morally and economically, argues James Bloodworth.
If Miliband wants a radical offer on HE, he should start with vice-chancellor’s pay
Inequality in higher education goes far beyond how much students pay.
Time for universities to reveal secret details of vice-chancellor pay increases
Vice-chancellors’ eye-watering rises are cloaked in secrecy.
The government is jeopardising higher education as a successful export
The government is jeopardising the future of higher education as a successful export due to its backward-looking approach to international students, writes Chuka Umunna.
One fifth of university bosses get 10% pay rise while staff see pay cut
University bosses saw their salaries jump by an average of 5.5 per cent between 2011-12 and 2012-13, according to a new study published today.