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Universities are struggling financially amid frozen domestic fees and growing political hostility to international students. But while the public finances are stretched, July¡¯s general election could allow a policy reset. In the second of two articles (read part one here), three senior figures suggest what a new government might realistically do

Graduate employment outcomes are obviously crucial. Yet we must be wary of judging courses and institutions on the basis of a few useful but misleading metrics

?9,000 fees permitted per-student funding to rise even at the height of austerity, argues former minister David Willetts

The advent of datasets linking graduates¡¯ income to their student records has fuelled calls for certain courses and universities to be excluded from public funding. But, ahead of England¡¯s Augar review of post-18 education, the minister who commissioned the longitudinal education outcomes project, David Willetts, warns against such abuses of the data

Andrew Adonis¡¯s account of how Labour could fund universities if tuition fees were abolished lacks credibility, says David Willetts

More can be done in the UK to encourage study abroad, but the anglophone world may continue to attract the lion¡¯s share, says David Willetts

Debate over the RAB charge is misleading. England's higher education funding system is sound and flexible, argues the former universities minister