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    • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
      English universities warn sharp rise in pension costs will hit student welfare

      Former polytechnics required to increase employer contributions due to government reforms

      Manchester Metropolitan University
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      No appetite to boost university funding leaves sector wooing more overseas students

      Non-UK tuition fees are crucial but growing numbers of undergraduates haven’t been matched by accommodation

      A member of a picket holds a placard ‘honk for higher education’ during a strike over pay and pensions by the University and College Union in London in February 2023
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Non-EU international students at UK universities less likely to get top grades, data shows

      Analysis will add to pressure on institutions accused of placing financial concerns ahead of academic quality

      Graduates wearing mortar board hats and robes at a degree ceremony at Birmingham university
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      Buy-to-let
      UK tenant legislation threatens higher student rents

      Government concessions on renters reform bill leave landlords facing a higher risk of vacant periods

      A student graduation ceremony
    • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
      Richard Layard
      Rationing access to apprenticeships is increasing the UK’s skills deficit

      Places for vocational training should be funded in the same way as degrees and match demand from young learners

      Apprentices work at a BAE academy in Cumbria. Sixty years ago the route to social mobility was as a part-time apprentice or trainee, but we have shamefully neglected it
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      UK university staff vote to end acrimonious pension dispute

      Deal with union in effect reverses cuts to retirement benefits proposed in 2022 after contested valuation of main scheme

      UCU members on the picket line outside the London School of Economics
    • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
      UK universities urged to cut ‘fraudulent’ international student applications

      Ex-minister Jo Johnson says failure to act risks backlash on fears some are ‘selling immigration rather than education’

      University students in a lecture hall
    • Tuesday, 17 October, 2023
      Special ReportWomen in Business
      From philosophy fan to wind energy entrepreneur

      The founder of a company that has developed a revolutionary turbine blade explains how she moved from the classics to engineering to business start-up

      A woman smiles for the camera. Behind her from afar is a tower with wind turbine blades
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      ObituaryUK economy
      Nicholas Crafts, economic historian, 1949-2023

      His definitive account of Britain’s Industrial Revolution became the essential reference for generations of economists

      Nicholas Crafts
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      UK universities called on to act swiftly over expressions of support for Hamas

      Education secretary Gillian Keegan writes to vice-chancellors over any ‘implicit or explicit’ threats against Jewish students

      Gillian Keegan
    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Cambridge
      Cambridge aims to double its number of ‘unicorns’ by 2035

      Universities, local government and industry to announce plan to boost innovation and expand multinationals in the city

      Cambridge Biomedical campus: Cambridge has 5,500 businesses that carry out research, development or innovation, generating more than £20bn in revenues a year
    • Sunday, 8 October, 2023
      Most disadvantaged UK students are still not going to top universities

      Research shows university students from least well-off families are no more likely to attend top universities than 25 years ago

    • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
      Investment in UK university spinouts falls after decade of growth

      Country’s biggest investor in businesses commercialising academic research calls for action to spur funding

      Parkwalk chief Moray Wright
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      National Health Service
      Number of UK nursing students plummets despite NHS shortages

      Low wages and student debt worries are believed to have undermined applications, putting workforce plan in doubt

      A nurse walks through an NHS hospital ward
    • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
      Camilla Cavendish
      It is a miracle that students aren’t rioting at beleaguered universities

      Innovative new courses and schools show what is sadly missing from over-regulated mainstream higher education

      Illustration of a stack of pound coins that starts to look like an Ancient Greek column towards the top. On the column is a statue of a man holding a degree certificate and wearing a mortar board
    • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
      Glen O'Hara
      Britain’s university crisis is reaching a tipping point

      Ministerial rhetoric about too many undergraduates ignores the real causes of the problem

      A student in a university library
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      LexUK property
      Student housing: dorm storm means young ones are the stung ones Premium content

      Insufficient university accommodation reflects problems in the wider buy-to-let sector

      Still from The Young Ones sitcom
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Emma Jacobs
      University is more than just a springboard to a job

      As employers decide job candidates no longer need degrees, the benefits of college years need spelling out

    • Friday, 18 August, 2023
      Work & Careers
      Is a degree worth it?

      Employers are starting to look more at skills than education, which is good news for students opting not to go to university

      Montage image of a bin with mortar boards and some line graphs
    • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
      UK schools
      UK exam boards make sharp cuts to top A-level grades

      Return to pre-pandemic marking causes A and A* grades to fall to 27.2% of total, down 9 percentage points

      Students react after receiving their A-level results at Ark Acton Academy in west London. The fall in A and A* grades in the UK equated to 73,000 fewer top marks in 2023
    • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      UK universities and unions urged to negotiate as strikes hit students

      Minister calls for talks as ‘damaging’ marking boycott leaves undergraduates without degree results

      Students in Edinburgh demonstrate  in support of UCU industrial action
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Student finance
      How to help children pay for university

      As the new academic year looms, parents face financial, social and educational dilemmas

    • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
      Student finance
      Universities demand more help for poorest students in England

      Report finds average annual rent in private accommodation will exceed maximum maintenance loan

    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Property sector
      British university towns grapple with student housing shortage

      Shortfall in student beds rose 45% in London since 2017-18, according to property survey

      A student in his bedroom
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      News in-depth
      Students are suing UK universities over Covid disruption. Do they have a case?

      About 120,000 people are seeking compensation but lawyers say they face an uphill battle

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