- It’s a tough time to start a career, but rising to the challenge could make a good story to tell employers Finding a job during or after university is about to get a whole lot harder. Employers hit by Covid-19 are cancelling work...
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- Ucas hopes its new scheme will save time and help socially disadvantaged students, but there have been criticisms too Where once university choices may have felt set in stone come A-level results day, today’s students are much more...
- Are rightwing academics being silenced? The Policy Exchange thinktank says they are – and it has plans for cracking down Another day, another skirmish in Britain’s culture war. Once again, universities have found themselves on the...
- Clear instructions are lacking in how students, staff and parents are meant to behave or dress when schools in England reopen As I’m going through the ups and downs of recovering from the effects of this terrible virus, I’m worried about...
- Policy Exchange thinktank urges government to impose free speech regulator British university staff oppose efforts to sack colleagues who produce controversial research, according to a report on political diversity in higher education...
- University College London has removed the names of eugenicists from three of its buildings. How far this goes to address an abhorrent past is much contested The provost of University College London announced in June this year that its...
- Oxford professor says institutions are being forced to reopen but fears student arrivals on campus will trigger Covid-19 outbreaks Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage One of the UK’s top higher education experts...
- Latest figures show first drop in a decade of university enrolment among black British students The proportion of black British school leavers going to university in England has fallen for the first time in a decade, just as the...
- A Silicon Valley startup could offer a template for universities shifting their courses online due to coronavirus No one could accuse CEO and businessman Ben Nelson of lacking ambition. “I wanted to create a university that serves as a...
- Three fifths (61%) say they have had to scrap some or all placements for students and graduates, according to poll Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage UK students hoping to enter the jobs market have had work...
- Universities employ armies of casualised staff, who are seen as disposable when a crisis hits. This isn’t fair As we at the University and College Union (UCU) lobby the Westminster government for an urgently needed bailout , thousands of...
- Universities take the easy route by addressing gender inequality while sidestepping awkward issue of race Opportunities for women in academia have improved enormously during my 30-year university career. It seems good news, doesn’t it?...
- Applying to university at the last minute can be frantic – here’s to get the most out of the clearing process I think students are in a very good position this year. First of all, there are fewer 18-year-olds than last year....
- Experts warn ‘sharp-elbowed’ middle classes more likely to talk their way into places as institutions look to expand School leavers may feel that, with A-level exams cancelled, they have lost control over their future. But experts say...
- Synairgen’s share price rises 540% on morning of news of successful drugs trial Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Three professors at the University of Southampton school of medicine have this week made a...
- In scrapping university targets, this government will reverse progress and limit access to higher education for working-class students, writes Gary Nethercott, while Rhona Jamieson tackles the education secretary’s assumptions about the...
- The way solicitors are trained is changing – here’s everything you need to know about the new process The biggest shake-up in 30 years to the way aspiring solicitors are trained is set to be introduced next September. Instead of having...
- As a university leader, I’ve come to understand how widespread sexual misconduct on campus is – and why change is urgent Last year, members of my senior management team were asked to publicly describe our most recent consensual sexual...
- Tory-backed thinktank is calling for increased funding for domestic students Britain’s universities rely too heavily on tuition fees from Chinese students, according to a Conservative-backed thinktank that wants the government to replace...
- A syllabus for one instrument can take anything up to four years to develop, writes Leslie East, former chief executive of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, while Laurie Smith highlights George Bridgetower As a former...
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