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Articles by Simon Baker
Unexpected institutional failure would accelerate 'polarised' borrowing trend. Simon Baker reports
Members of 'the sensible group' must now decide on its direction, Paul Marshall tells Simon Baker
David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.
The income generated by education exports in Australia has fallen by 15 per cent as a result of a downturn in the number of overseas students choosing to study in the country.
Separate agreement for research may tempt elite to quit student loans system. Simon Baker writes
Newer institutions face undergraduate shortfall, a THE straw poll suggests. Simon Baker reports
Government plans for the Higher Education Funding Council for England are ringing alarm bells across the sector. Can it really become a consumer protection body and fund universities without conflicts of interest? And would Hefce's expanding remit further erode institutional autonomy? Simon Baker surveys an uncertain future
The vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England has been elected as the new chair of the University Alliance as the mission group expands its membership to 24 institutions.
Students' social backgrounds may be less of a factor in determining whether they drop out of university than was previously thought, a major study has concluded.
But as tax rules ease, institutional unions still face cultural hurdles, say experts. Simon Baker writes
Not being 'suckered' by posh veneer is the key to succeeding, Baroness Kennedy tells Simon Baker
Lack of suitable outside candidates for Offa adds to uncertainty in sector. Simon Baker reports
Institutions warned to be more transparent about postgraduate course quality, writes Simon Baker
A pre-1992 university has cut almost ?1 million in planned cash support for poorer students while offering tuition-fee discounts for high-achieving applicants so that it can bid for extra places on two fronts.
Students whose A-level grades fall just short of AAB next year could be at risk of missing out on a university place altogether, a number of institutions have warned.
The concentration of research funding in a few elite universities has been described as a "policy trap" that fails to reflect the modern trend towards wider academic collaboration.
Two proposals have been put forward to avert the “polarisation” of the sector as a result of the government’s student number plans.
Proposals by 25 universities and colleges to cut their tuition fees so they can bid for 20,000 cut-price undergraduate places in 2012-13 have been approved by the Office for Fair Access, but it has led to only a small fall in the sector average of ?90 to ?8,071.
One of the English funding council's most senior officials publicly rebuked a business leader after she suggested that some universities were "perilously close" to being in financial trouble.
A major barrier to universities saving money by sharing services is set to be removed by the government.
Research-intensive universities in the UK should be considering setting up more campuses overseas to counter the threat of falling international student numbers at home, a mission group has said.
New 1994 Group chair tells Simon Baker that the coalition is sleepwalking into a postgrad crisis
The dean of a specialist institution who presided over a controversial decision to merge with University College London has been appointed to a senior role at the large research-intensive university.
