The Higher Education Funding Council wants loyalty from academics to their institutions. Alexandre Borovik suggests that academics should be loyal above all to their disciplines and their communities.

The Government is making further cuts in state funding for higher education – and encouraging business to fill the gap. Robert Stevens reports.

NUS: managing apathy?

In its Annual General Meeting last Wednesday, the University College London Students’ Union voted to sever links with the military and to prohibit recruitment at union-organised events.

With student debt spiralling and higher education being reduced to a commodity, Laurie Penny calls for a change of course

Tim Street in a UK Watch exclusive on the increasing militarisation of British universities, which has seen world-class institutions selling their expertise to improve Britain’s warmaking capabilities, and the growing movement to oppose this.