Why universities copy each other’s fees, and why it fails
Two consultants examine how UK universities set international tuition fees — largely by imitating competitors rather than by costing provision or testing what a market will bear — and argue the practice is now dangerous, with recruitment down 30 per cent. For applicants it explains why fees for the same subject cluster so tightly across institutions of very different quality.
A new engineering building opens in a year of cuts
Edinburgh has opened a new engineering building intended to change how teaching, research and industry work connect. Capital projects like this are committed years ahead and completed regardless of the financial weather, which is why a university can open a building and cut staff in the same term.