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England¡¯s loan system and high fees have fuelled students¡¯ sense of entitlement but not of responsibility, says Beth Guilding 

Bennett College seen as exemplifying challenges faced by small, private, minority-serving and women-only institutions

Lowering of student loan repayment threshold to recoup an extra A$20 million (?11.3 million) but cost A$19 million

Changes to the way the UK accounts for the cost of student loans should trigger a rethink about the sources of university funding, says Ryan Shorthouse

Positions are being redistributed to Italy¡¯s richer regions, academic group warns, exacerbating long-standing inequalities

Dollars, not diktats, now seen as biggest risk to institutional autonomy in special administrative region

London university will shut down site as part of new institutional strategy 

Australian government is underestimating the challenge, analysts say

Cash flows increasingly from south and east Asia to south-eastern cities

Even if tuition-free or ¡®debt-free¡¯ higher education cannot be achieved at national level, local reforms are having a big impact

With one more year to go until the end of a decade that is transforming universities worldwide, 51³Ô¹Ï looks at the trends that have shaped the past 12 months

Expert panel given six months to design new system

IFS researcher says ONS decision will make Labour fees pledge ¡®a lot less expensive¡¯ and bring more ¡®Treasury scrutiny¡¯ of sector

The University of Buckingham will open a new health science campus on Cheshire site

PhD scholarships in the sights as cutbacks more than double analysts¡¯ expectations

Call for England¡¯s Augar review to take action over fate of part-time education, as Birkbeck starts losing money too

Impending ONS student loans review to impact on chancellor¡¯s deficit elimination goal and government¡¯s post-18 education review

University hit by declining student numbers returns multimillion-pound deficit for third year in row

Sector surpluses dip below 5 per cent ¡®buffer zone¡¯ threshold

Managers¡¯ first reaction is usually to ¡®look at the bottom line¡¯, but ¡®they¡¯re just usually not as crass and as crude as this¡¯

A 51³Ô¹Ï/Wall Street Journal analysis suggests that while the two-year MBA remains extremely strong, shorter alternatives are also becoming highly valued in a time-pressed world. Anna McKie reports

Both the rationale and the mechanism for redistributing research activity around the regions are far from clear cut, say Sarah Chaytor and Graeme Reid   

Overseas programmes are rarely money-spinners, but as power shifts east they will be crucial for Western universities¡¯ continued relevance, says Matt Durnin

Sector leaders fear consultation could be cover for cutbacks

Adam Habib fears ¡®race to the middle¡¯ if national fee-setting regime introduced

Research the goal but not the currency, as Australian universities chase Chinese dollars

Legislation leaves government free to ¡®ratchet up¡¯ levy, say critics

Japan¡¯s combined budgetary crunch and demographic squeeze has raised questions about the sustainability of its huge university sector. John Ross visits the country to investigate

Although less than half of fee income typically goes directly to teaching, English universities should not fear more openness, says Hepi study

¡®Cost recovery¡¯ levy defies logic, institutions argue

Association of Colleges head says new route should be coupled with ¡®limit¡¯ on number of students taking bachelor¡¯s degrees

In what could become a model for the rest of the country, Corvinus University of Budapest will have to rely on tuition fees and endowment interest

Government attempts to protect regional institutions by restricting growth in capital

Australian universities may have to wait months to find out how much funding they will forfeit

Universities criticise source of new cash splash

Research reportedly picking up the tab for Australian government¡¯s regional cash splash

Leaks suggesting plans to lower fees could chime with government agenda on tackling cross-subsidy

A downturn last decade offers a textbook example of the risk universities face, say Melbourne researchers

Office for Students chair says institutions must be ¡®better at managing their affairs¡¯ after reports that some are in financial trouble

Representative organisation criticises vice-chancellors¡¯ aversion to sharing funding with vocational education

The Australian government has released three major data sets unusually back-to-back and full of mistakes, leading John Ross to ask: why so much, why so fast and why so erroneous?

Parent institutions siphon off majority of most UK business schools¡¯ expenditure, survey says

Many students who do not complete their course at the first attempt often return to their studies, say experts

Australia¡¯s freeze on teaching grants protected struggling institutions, not education budget

The possibility of a university failing as it is exposed to commercial forces could have consequences that ripple out far beyond campus

Record revenue fuelled by large foreign intakes at the country¡¯s biggest universities

Deepening deficits of up to ?14 million at English universities prompt warnings of damage to cities and towns reliant on universities as ¡®anchors¡¯

Regional institutions hardest hit as domestic cap dovetails with intense competition for foreigners

Department tasks KPMG with surveying universities on their teaching costs, in work for Augar review

Canadian university leader said he would be ¡®worried¡¯ if he were at an institution in the province 

UUK and CBI back transformation of apprenticeship levy into ¡®skills levy¡¯

Consultants argue Humboldtian ideal of research-informed teaching ¡®shackles¡¯ institutions into uniformity

Director of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay says universities in India are improving but progress will be slow despite government initiatives

The animosity towards higher education seen in the UK is likely to head Down Under, vice-chancellor warns

Many countries on continent have not repaired cuts made during financial crisis, despite economic growth

The relaxation of the research excellence framework¡¯s submission rules could see research-intensive universities clustered on near-maximum scores, warms Dominic Dean

Seeking a greater share of imagined profits from commercialisation would undermine technology transfer, says David Secher

Thanks to a big boost in aid from colleges, students paid slightly less on average this year, but the reduced fees could take a toll on quality, expert warns

Australian fears of official curbing of student visas ¡®overblown¡¯, experts say

Ten regional public universities plead bankruptcy following sector cries of chronic underfunding