Elite university funding slammed
Press Review 23 October 2003
Forum Brief: A Level results
Policy Consultation 14 August 2003
This year's A Level results have been published, with more students than ever achieving top marks.
Forum Brief: Top-up fees
Policy Consultation 10 July 2003
A cross-party committee has criticised government plans to introduce top-up fees in the higher education sector.
Forum Brief: Conservative education policy
Policy Consultation 13 May 2003
The Conservatives have pledged to abolish university tuition fees if they win the next general election.
Baroness Warwick - chief executive of Universities UK
Stakeholder Interview 2 May 2003
Question: How satisfied were you with the funding arrangements for universities that the government announced earlier this year?
Forum Brief: Higher Education white paper
Policy Consultation 30 April 2003
The government's higher education white paper consultation has closed with mixed views from the education sector.
Forum Brief: Budget - Public spending
Policy Consultation 9 April 2003
Gordon Brown's Budget reaffirmed promises to maintain 'record investment in schools' and provide 25,000 more doctors and 80,000 more nurses by 2008.
Forum Brief: Access to universities
Policy Consultation 8 April 2003
Charles Clarke has unveiled plans for the new higher education access regulator and warned universities they will have to accept more working class students.
Forum Brief: Internet use
Policy Consultation 10 February 2003
The growth in internet use has slowed, according to research by Oftel.
Forum Brief: Student debt
Policy Consultation 4 February 2003
A report for Universities UK has warned that the government's plans to restore maintenance grants for the poorest students will not be enough to encourage working class students to enter
Forum Brief: University funding reform
Policy Consultation 23 January 2003
Following the publishing of the higher education white paper by the Department for Education and Skills, higher education minister Margaret Hodge has invited ePolitix.com Forum members to express their views.
Forum Brief: Universities Report
Policy Consultation 17 January 2003
Techniques to help universities identify the potential for success among a wider range of applicants to higher education are outlined in a new report to be published next week.
Forum Brief: Higher education pay
Policy Consultation 11 December 2002
University lecturers are to receive salary increases as a result of the government's review of higher education to be unveiled next month.
Forum Brief: Labour policies
Policy Consultation 9 December 2002
Senior union leader Bill Morris has warned the government that "by pursuing policies like foundation hospitals, university top-up fees and describing decent trade unionists as wreckers and dinosaurs, Labour
Forum Brief: Student debt
Policy Consultation 6 December 2002
The majority of final year university students believe that borrowing money for their higher education is a good investment, according to a study commissioned by Universities UK.
