John Morgan was deputy news editor. He reported on politics and government policy, higher education funding, university governance and private provision in the sector.
He completed a PhD in English literature at the University of Leeds before spending three years as a reporter at the Cambridge News, where he was health correspondent.
John was winner of the outstanding higher education journalism category at the 2018 CIPR Education Journalism Awards.
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Articles by John Morgan
Vice-chancellors warn that UK government immigration policy is behind fall in international recruitment by having ‘negative impact on perceptions’
Wellesley environmental historian on drawing inspiration from students for his Cundill History Prize-nominated book on batteries, and why the West risks growing China dependency in clean energy era
Shadow minister Matt Western accuses government of creating ‘funding crisis’ in English universities
Education divide report finds Tory support among graduates lowest for 45 years and graduates will outweigh school-leavers in most seats by 2030s
UK chancellor also funds Holocaust education efforts in universities and simplifies R&D tax credit
Australian universities say remit of proposed watchdog needs ‘detailed examination’
UK ‘needs more good post-secondary education’ but via ‘diversified’ routes, and nations might have ‘limit’ on need for university expansion, says influential expert
Scientific writing should avoid use of terms like ‘cuckold’, says paper finding antifeminist online forums often draw on ‘reputable research’
Pledge to rebalance from ‘poor-quality degrees’ to apprenticeships seen as likely rhetoric only, but there are hopes for international student reset
College sector leader urges universities to realise that without unified tertiary model ‘we are not going to win any more money’
榴莲视频 Office list of top-ranked universities giving graduates visa eligibility adds two Chinese institutions, but stretching to India ‘would boost UK employers’
English regulator publishes latest report in series of government-initiated investigations
Ex-Universities UK president described as ‘towering figure in higher education’
Republican front runner lifts from DeSantis playbook in idea for free online alternative to ‘woke’ universities, connecting to concerns on endowments and access
Polling also finds public ‘misunderstanding’ in idea that graduates lean left on economics, suggesting impact of ‘woke’ universities narrative
Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ‘something more radical’ or a review – and what she really thinks about corduroy
Graduates would pay higher contributions over shorter time to make system ‘self-funding’ and solve funding crisis in proposal from dataHE co-founder
Former adviser to Tory ministers criticises government for asking monarch to ‘speak negatively of national asset’
Potsdam president foresees shift to focus on prompt engineering in teaching – but another AI expert thinks it is just another professional skill to rank alongside ‘can use Excel’
Former Tory adviser advocates need for controls to reverse resource decline, but another expert sees ‘block on access to education’
Dame Ottoline Leyser issues statement to make position ‘crystal clear’ as academic concern mounts over government pressure
Rishi Sunak’s recent attack on higher education expansion as ‘one of great mistakes of the last 30 years’ leaves questions on economics and politics
Only a small minority of institutions adopting climate change policies common in the private sector, finds report
Party stalls even on limited changes like stepped loan repayments, while deeper reform might only come ‘in return for value-for-money case’
