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
Former Brexit secretary calls on Philip Augar’s review panel to lighten the burden of student borrowing
Universities unable to deliver governments’ ‘unrealistic expectations’ of prosperity and social mobility, says English funding review member
Evidence on international students’ tax payments raises ‘serious concerns’ about rejection of post-study work visa return, says report for Hepi
Post-18 education review also said to have looked at proposals to allocate top-up public funding according to subjects’ cost of provision
Inclusion of hard target seen as a major win for sector, potentially shifting power away from 榴莲视频 Office
Brunel University London vice-chancellor to take role at potentially crucial time for English universities
Education secretary said to be preparing announcements on grade inflation, essay mills and unconditional offers in England
Philip Hammond also says panel report for post-18 review will be ‘published shortly’
MillionPlus wants end to judging visa applicants on which university they plan to attend, to ‘credibility interviews’ and to 10 per cent refusal rate threshold
Member universities would be unable to fill 60,000 jobs from abroad, and face increased costs too, says report
Former ESRC chief executive to replace Swansea’s suspended v-c Richard Davies after his ‘planned retirement’
The Oxford professor and Costa Book of the Year award-winner on bringing a Holocaust survivor’s story into the present through ‘documentary novelisation’
Deputy minister says new law will open universities ‘to the needs of the people’, after it sparked mass student protests
Party’s Lifelong Learning Commission will look at longer-term ‘structures’ in contrast to government’s ‘short-term’ review, says Gordon Marsden
Claims that academics are indoctrinating their students with liberal propaganda are increasingly common in the right-wing media. John Morgan examines why such a conviction has arisen and whether there is any substance to it
Archive of tweets linked to St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency reveals scale of disinformation attempts around free speech and ‘left bias’ controversies
Marketisation and intense competition a key underlying factor in spate of senior departures and suspensions, experts argue
Angela Rayner pledges to order regulator to ‘avoid university bankruptcies’ in bid to end Tories’ ‘failed free market experiment’
UCU branch rejects redundancies plan and blames ‘poor investment and spending decisions’ for financial woes
Treasury wants longer delay to England’s post-18 review so it is ‘part of’ spending review, but earlier publication could give sector more say
University began investigation after concerns about ?200 million development project led to suspension of v-c and dean
Dozens of universities are already interested in striking ‘civic university agreements’ proposed by commission
House of Lords committee also calls for UK to fully associate to EU’s Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ programmes after Brexit
In sharing his side of the conversation about England’s post-18 education review, Chris Skidmore gives insight into the battle going on inside the government, John Morgan writes
