Liam Burns has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, pledging to reject the idea of students as consumers and dismantle the fees regime.
Scottish universities should privatise and adopt an Ivy League-style system of high tuition fees and bursaries to protect their standing, according to a leading educationalist.
The outgoing president of the National Union of Students has used an opening speech at its annual conference to apologise for elements of his controversial tenure.
The University of Sheffield has put on hold plans to cut the pensions of its lowest-paid staff after all local MPs with the exception of deputy prime minister Nick Clegg urged a rethink.
Four more English universities have unveiled plans to charge the top rate of tuition fees, bringing the number to have opted for the maximum to 32 of the 44 institutions to date that have stated their intentions.
Striking lecturers are pledging to bring Liverpool Hope University to a standstill today, although managers claim two-thirds will turn up to work as usual.
Lecturers from the University and College Union who help to run the sectors 瞿30 billion pension fund are being threatened with High Court action by the fund itself.
Young people from poor backgrounds are more likely to see university study as "a means to an end" than to view it as an intrinsically worthwhile experience, a survey suggests.
Ministers are looking closely at a proposal for allocating all university places in an auction, with the government judging bids according to which ones offer the best deals for the taxpayer.
A plan by funding chiefs to link support for postgraduate research students to a university's research quality is another step towards recreating a "binary" higher education system, a pro vice-chancellor has claimed.
The vice-chancellor of the second post-1992 university to set 瞿9,000 fees has called on the government to pause fee rises and new legislation to allow time for a new Dearing report into the sectors future.
Just six months after Lord Brownes landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its proposals for university funding.
New universities in Wales are to bear the brunt of next year's funding cuts as the Welsh funding council protects high-quality research at the expense of teaching.