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Articles by John Morgan
Universities’ overseas activities should come under closer scrutiny in the new risk-based quality assurance regime, England’s funding council has proposed.
The different means-tested bursary and fee-waiver schemes introduced by universities to mitigate the impact of higher tuition fees on poorer students will create “further complexity”, including “cliff edges” where support disappears at particular income levels.
The government has announced that uncapped recruitment of the highest-achieving students at A-level will be extended to the ABB threshold in 2013-14, while a further 5,000 places will be allocated to cheaper institutions through the margin system.
QAA agrees that degree-awarding powers will move with institution. John Morgan reports
Universities have pitched their latest pay offer for next year well short of the 7 per cent claim from the unions, tabling a 0.8 per cent offer that was quickly rejected.
New Bedfordshire v-c voices concerns but says role won't be platform for politics. John Morgan reports
The charitable College of Law, one of only five private providers in the UK with degree-awarding powers, has been sold to a private for-profit firm.
Some capital funding for universities is being reallocated to further education colleges as a result of the government's core-and-margin system.
Finance school's vice-principal is keener on a level playing field than private suitors, John Morgan hears
For-profit higher education firms received half of all spending from a US government programme that allows military servicemen and women to study while on active duty, according to figures released by a senator.
Hefce says that record levels of spare cash prepare the academy for the new fees regime, but as new policies for allocating student places bed in, we might need to reassess its future financial prospects. John Morgan reports
The head of England’s funding council has warned that government calculations on student loan repayments “have got to turn out to be robust” if the new higher education system is to be financially sustainable.
Almost eight in ten UK universities will embark on major capital projects worth more than ?5 million in the next year as they face up to fiercer competition for students under the new regime.
The head of England's funding council has maintained that government policy on higher education contains "contradictions", despite being "in trouble" for his comments.
Hefce in dark over extent of transfer to sub-degree courses under new system. John Morgan reports
Richard Descoings, the head of the Paris institution Sciences Po and one of the leading reformers in French higher education, has been found dead in a New York hotel room.
Post-92s hardest hit by AAB and core-and-margin plans, Hefce projections show. John Morgan writes
The growth in the proportion of young people participating in higher education has stalled after years of steady increases, according to new figures.
The National Audit Office has called for tougher action against overseas students who are breaking visa rules, prompting Universities UK to warn that “legitimate concerns about immigration” should not be allowed to cause “irreversible damage” to the nation’s higher education export industry.
Higher fees for UK master’s courses are deterring students from continuing their studies and the deterrent is strongest for those from poorer backgrounds, according to a new study.
Quartet abandon 1994 Group for new home among elite body. John Morgan reports
Rise in CAM-do spirit foreseen as Birmingham and Nottingham mark anniversary. John Morgan writes
