The casualisation of academic staff is nothing new in Australia – Campus Review has covered the topic many times and yet the problem seems to only get worse. (Kate Prendergast's story A vision for radical university change illustrates the extent of ...

Unlike banks such as Lloyds and the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), failing UK universities won't have it easy if they're near collapse. Announcing this at Wonkfest – a higher education festival in London – Sir Michael Barber, the head of the ...

British universities should take millions of pounds set aside for bursaries and tuition-fee discounts for poor students and use it to fund a new education allowance for teenagers, a report says. The study by Alan Milburn, the British government's social ...