- Education secretary says means-tested grants for ‘those who need them most’ will be funded by new international student levy Labour is to bring back maintenance grants for tens of thousands of students from low-income backgrounds who...
- My wife Rachel Cooper, who has died aged 71 of gallbladder cancer, was one of Britain’s leading design management academics. Her major contributions were to socially responsible design, sustainable urban environments, general policy and...
- ‘Debt sentences’ rose by a third in six months, finds Royal London after FoI request to Student Loans Company More than 150,000 people in the UK now have student loan debts of more than £100,000, with one borrower owing £298,000, data...
- Higher education regulator’s findings from survey of 50,000 final-year students described as ‘national scandal’ One in three female students say they have endured sexual harassment during their time at university or college, with most of...
- Readers respond to a letter which said that AI is undermining learning at universities Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney are right to warn that uncritical reliance on artificial intelligence risks bypassing deep learning ( Letters,...
- Personalised notes from students who share similar backgrounds are designed to make higher education feel more accessible “Dear Rahamat, first of all congratulations! I remember the day I got my GCSE results. The potential for your life...
- Allegations of student loan fraud, lies to US education department and mass deception may lead to huge payout A 2024 lawsuit filed by two former Los Angeles Film School executives against the prominent for-profit university has been...
- First 34 students, who have full scholarships, welcomed after months of campaigning by academics and others Middle East crisis – live updates A group of Palestinian scholars who have been awaiting evacuation from Gaza to take up their...
- My father, Chris Calladine, who has died aged 90, came from an East Midlands mining community to become a professor of structural mechanics whose groundbreaking work contributed to the understanding of DNA. He taught for 42 years in the...
- Group of students from Gaza with places at British universities are due to arrive in the UK within days David Lammy has hinted that the UK government could U-turn to allow Palestinian scholars to bring their children to the UK. A group...
- Schools would be required to build memorial plaza and describe slain activist as civil rights leader or face fines Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced legislation this week that would require every public university in the state...
- Young liberals challenged Kirk’s conservative views on the viral YouTube series Surrounded - an ‘unnerving’ spectacle, according to a rhetoric expert In the days after his killing, Charlie Kirk was remembered by his allies as a great...
- Four out of five making staff cuts as physicists say findings are ‘great concern’ for UK’s leadership in important areas The heads of UK physics departments say their subject is facing a national crisis as one in four warns that their...
- The boycott targets institutions, not academics or the flow of ideas, writes Jonathan Rosenhead You report on the growing strength of the movement for an academic boycott of Israeli universities ( Universities around the world cut ties...
- Dozens of students from Gaza hoped to travel to US to resume studies interrupted by war – Trump’s visa ban crushed their plans Within days of 7 October 2023, much of Maryam’s world had been wiped out: her home in Gaza City, her...
- My friend John Windle, who has died aged 75, three years after a diagnosis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, was a committed socialist for all his adult life and supported the successful campaign to elect Tony Benn as MP for...
- Since our last survey, we find more columnists, podcasters and executives are from privileged backgrounds. That’s too narrow a segment of society The Sutton Trust has researched the educational backgrounds of Britain’s most influential...
- My husband, Ulrich Loening, who has died aged 94, was a lecturer first in the botany and then in the zoology departments (now the molecular plant sciences and biological sciences departments) of Edinburgh University. He engaged in...
- Prof Leo McCann and Prof Simon Sweeney say student misuse of generative artificial intelligence is widespread and we must be sceptical of its usefulness In discussing generative artificial intelligence ( ‘It’s going to be a life skill’:...
- Highly educated Kenyans working for essay mills ghostwrite academic work that students pass off as their own There is a secret industry that generates billions of dollars a year. Its workers are bright, industrious and completely...
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