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Graduate unemployment doubles in five years
New figures from HESA reveal rising graduate unemployment on the same day as Department of Education stats show an increase in numbers of 16-18 year old NEETs.
Government funding of university research at lowest proportion since 1900s
Annual public spending on university teaching and research in England will fall to its lowest proportion in over a century.
Are the devolved nations playing supermarket sweep with tuition fees?
Ed Jacobs examines the devolved nations’ tuition fees policy for UK students born outside their jurisdiction.
Time for a re-distribution of academic wealth
If distinguished academics were “incentivised” to move between universities - similar to a Teach First scheme - other places could be new Oxbridge's.
Coalition policy is a programme not for social mobility but for social engineering
Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, writes about how the coalition's policies are a programme for social engineering - not social mobility.
Can the Oxford Dons turn the tide in the Higher Education debate?
Next Tuesday hundreds of Oxford academics will debate and vote on a motion of no confidence in the policies of the Universities’ minister David Willetts.