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
The government has suspended 23 private colleges from the publicly-funded loans system after a surge in their student numbers.
Ministers have been accused of “industrial scale incompetence” after a damning report on student loans was released by the public spending watchdog
‘Uncontrolled’ growth in HNCs and HNDs may lead to university retrenchment
Coalition government policy to create a market in higher education has pushed England’s sector into “a terrible muddle, unmatched in the world”.
Sally Mapstone throws her weight behind calls to move beyond ?9,000 fees cap
The Economics of Higher Education network aims to highlight neglected areas of economic research on the sector
University accounts will show write-down of ?3.2 million
David Willetts has confirmed that public spending on students at private providers trebled this year.
The battle over plans to close the University of London Union has seen its president, Michael Chessum, arrested.
Private universities will keep US system ahead of Asia for decades yet, conference hears
Scrapped mission group was close to high-profile rebrand
Vince Cable has criticised the “qualification inflation” that means entrants to “very standard” professions such as nursing require a degree.
At least a quarter of the “access gap” for “top” universities in three countries cannot be explained by academic achievement, a new report says
The immigration minister has accused universities of creating “a self-fulfilling prophecy for bad news” on student visas
The new EU-funded ranking system has secured involvement from around 600 institutions and will see users choose their own indicators.
The UUK president discusses fees and funding reforms
Social class ‘still biggest predictor of university attendance post-Robbins report’, conferences hear
THE survey shows non-EU students outside India largely undeterred by coalition measures
The 1994 Group has urged the government to introduce a postgraduate loan system to combat a 12 per cent drop in student numbers over three years.
Some in the academy believe it could
Domino theory may explain out of favour Blairite’s appointment
Internal papers show 3 per cent decline in firm acceptances for University of Central Lancashire
The Office of Fair Trading is to examine England’s universities, including how they compete for students and set fees under the ?9,000 regime.
If the UK were to leave the European Union, the nation’s universities would be left in even greater “ideological thrall” to the US.
