The Plashing Vole

Hi everybody. As it's a while since I updated the world with the activities of my local MP, elusive millionaire fantasist Paul Uppal, he...

A simple plan to simplify student funding. 1. Charge students exactly what they paid for their secondary education. 2. Distribute the mon...

You may have heard that the government has decided to legislate for a minimum price of 45p per alcohol units. A bit less than Scotland's...

In the midst of the furore over undergraduate tuition fees, one group of people has been forgotten: the postgraduate student, especially tho...

Spotted in this weekend's Guardian Review : They fuck you up the government You may not know it but they see That you're a mug a...

My good friend @drleehw pointed me in the direction of this Student Fee Repayment calculator . It's as horrific as it sounds: even given...

Wow. I thought that the government's White Paper on Higher Education was a naked piece of class politics mixed with a massive dollop of ...

A member of The Hegemon's Executive is doing a live chat on the local newspaper's website, on the subject of tuition fees. You don...

The government has a cunning plan : to allow rich kids to buy their way on to oversubscribed university courses by paying the full fees char...

Well, we've finally heard what tuition fees we'll be charging from next year. Drum roll? £8500. The government said the 'ave...

The Hegemon has remained suspiciously quiet about what fees we're going to charge (you could try its Twitter feed  (featuring not major ...

Ireland used to have tuition fees. Then it scrapped them. There's an admin fee of a between €500-1500 which is a sneaky way to charge st...

The announcement has been made: any university wishing to raise fees above £6000 will have to spend £900 on 'outreach' and recruitme...

Horrific image, isn't it? But Richard Drayton, an eminent Cambridge professor claims - with some cause - that this highly-educated go...

You might think that a government-commissioned review of higher education funding would be utterly scrupulous in the way that it conducted ...

The government has really badly screwed up their ridiculous plans to impose massive tuition fees on everybody. They decided to artificially ...

That's what the Oxbridge-educated Minister for Universities thinks - as though there will be a market, and that 18-year-olds are ration...

Richard Barnett, VC at UU (sadly, not Ankh-Morpork's finest education establishment ) isn't a fan of fees . The Northern Ireland As...

The government - especially Mr Clegg - has been going round telling everyone who'll listen that the tuition fees system they're intr...

Today's New York Times . There can be no excuse for the behavior of a minority of student protestors in Britain, who battled police, sm...