I’m interested in how the mainstream media treats higher education and so track it closely. Newspapers still shape public opinion and so it matters how the sector is presented and how the press interpret higher education policy.
To help understand this over the longer-term, I’ve been collecting (mostly English) front pages that mention HE in some way. If you have any more, please send them in.
‘Epidemic’ of sex harassment in universities – The Guardian 6/3/17
Student crisis as suicides hit record levels – Metro 6/3/17
Plans to create Oxford-on-Seine to save university’s EU funding – The Telegraph, Monday 20/02/17
Lords revolt at Tory plans for ‘free-market’ universities – The Observer, 1st January 2017
University staff contracts ‘like Sports Direct’ – The Guardian 17/11/16
Universities told to raise standards of cut fees – The Times 17/05/16
Pattern: University quotas will hit admissions – The Telegraph 16/05/16
Cameron sets university challenge for private sector in echo of Thatcherism – FT 10/03/16
Hawking leads 150 Royal Society scientists against Brexit – The Times 10/03/16
University leaders unite to criticise elected-posts plan – The Herald 08/02/16
Students hit hard by slump in electoral roll – The Guardian 01/02/16
A young black man is more likely to be in prison than at a top university – The Sunday Times 31/01/16
Student Loan Jihadi – The Sun 30/01/16
Rhodes will not fall – The Telegraph 29/01/16
Students in crisis over poor maths and English – The Times 29/01/16
Brexit would lead to a funding catastrophe, universities warn – The Guardian 12/11/15
Quitting EU ‘would harm universities and students’ The Independent – 27/07/15
Tories’ £20bn student loan debt disaster – The Daily Mirror 23/02/2015
Knives out for ‘Ed Balls’ the bungler’ – The Sunday Times 22/02/2015
Labour plans pension raid to fund lower student fees – The Saturday Times 21/01/2015
University chiefs scorn Miliband’s fees policy – The Times 02/02/2014
7 in 10 students now getting 2:1 – Metro 16/01/2015
May: I’ll kick out foreign graduates – The Sunday Times 21/12/2014
80,000 UK students told: you can’t train as a nurse – The Daily Mail 18/12/2014
Thousands of ‘fake’ students at new colleges – The Guardian 02/12/2014
Coalition abandons target to reduce migration – The Daily Telegraph 24/11/2014
Tuition fees: three-quarters of students won’t pay off their debt – The Independent 18/11/2014
Watchdog to tackle colleges – The Guardian 23/05/2014
Classes with few students expose flaws in fees boom – The Guardian 22/05/2014
Scientists in cover-up of ‘damaging’ climate view – The Times 16/05/2014
Official: how to make a million – The Daily Telegraph 16/05/2014
Labour vows to rub out Gove era in education – The Guardian 30/04/2014
Tuition Fees Increase ‘will save nothing’ – The Daily Telegraph 24/04/2014
Universities challenged to lower the bar for state pupils – The Independent 28/03/2014
Milliband is not fit for No 10, say most voters – The Times 26/03/2014
Labour will take axe to student fees – The Sunday Times 10/03/2014
Women race ahead of men at university – The I 31/01/2014
Boys being left behind as the university gender gap grows – The Daily Telegraph 31/01/2014
Huge pay rises for the university bosses who lectured on austerity – The Independent 03/01/2014
Poor students risk losing out to ‘middle-class bias’ – university tsar – The Observer 11/08/2013
Unishambles – The Independent 25/10/2012
Missing: 15,000 did not apply for university after fees hike – The Guardian 08/08/2012
How foreign students with lower grades jump the queue – The Daily Telegraph 27/06/2012
Universities in revolt at plan to curb tax breaks – The Times 13/04/2012
Penalty for paying off student loan early is lifted – The Daily Telegraph 16/02/2012
Universities still failing poor students – The Guardian 29/09/2011
Graduate gloom as 83 apply for every vacancy – The Independent 28/06/2011
Official: ‘soft’ A-Levels damage chance of top university place – The Guardian – 04/02/2011
School’s out children take to the streets – The Guardian 25/11/2010
