A student funding system in Ontario that brings together sources of financial help will be watched closely by other provinces seeking to increase access, says Glen Jones
Jo Johnson, minister for universities and science, says ¡®we will ensure students and taxpayers receive strong returns from their investment in higher education¡¯
Labour Party will also ensure that students currently at university will not have to pay tuition for their remaining years, says shadow HE minister Gordon Marsden
While the Higher Education and Research Act seeks to level the playing field between providers, an unregulated category could spook future politicians and see the law retightened, says Nick Hillman
Australian policymakers have moved to link funding to student retention. But they must accept that desirable trends don¡¯t all arise in perfect harmony, says Andrew Norton
Research is a complex ecosystem; focusing on instrumental impacts alone fails to give the full picture of how advances are made, say Laura Meagher and Ursula Martin
Horizon 2020 could have more success getting technologies off the ground if it does not neglect the basic work that sparks breakthroughs, say Geert de Snoo, Floor Frederiks, Peter Lievens and Katrien Maes
Universities must play a major part in the emergence of the new technical education sector envisaged in the chancellor¡¯s recent Budget, says Andy Westwood
Higher education funding from US state governments has always been volatile, but reforms to healthcare could put public universities¡¯ income under even greater pressure, says Will Doyle
Life science is a big part of the UK government¡¯s industrial strategy, but neglecting basic research will drive top researchers abroad and threaten the flow of translatable discoveries, says Philippe Froguel
Universities should consider building ¡®families¡¯ of schools and colleges to facilitate easy transfer between different levels of education, says David Phoenix
There is a growing recognition in Australia that the future of higher education must be considered alongside what happens to its struggling technical and further education sector.
Cramming study into the shortest possible time will impoverish the student experience and drive an even greater wedge between research-enabled permanent staff and the growing underclass of flexible teaching staff, says Tom Cutterham
As UK prime minister Theresa May launches her new industrial strategy, Sir Keith Burnett reflects on how education needs to change if the UK is to succeed