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
