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    • 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

    • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

      Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

      Illustration of two people wearing academic gowns and mortarboards looking up at balloons, each with a degree certificate tied to its string. One balloon is gold, while other contain fragments of £10 notes
    • Friday, 21 July, 2023
      Britons squeezed out of top universities by lucrative overseas students

      Intake of lower-paying domestic students drops at Russell Group as funding crisis bites

    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Universities Superannuation Scheme
      UK universities set to secure big cut in pensions bill

      Universities Superannuation Scheme records a surplus after more than a decade in deficit due to sharp rise in interest rates

      A student walks in the campus of Glasgow university
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      The looming financial crisis at UK universities

      Tuition fees are not keeping up with the rising costs of the country’s world-class higher education sector, prompting calls for a radical rethink

      Buildings from Aberdeen university, Sheffield university, Manchester university and Imperial College, plus a student protesting in Edinburgh and a graph line showing falling spending per student
    • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
      Sunak announces crackdown on ‘poor quality’ university courses

      Higher education regulator will be required to limit number of students recruited on to certain courses

      Photo of university graduates on graduation day
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      University of Cambridge
      Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism

      History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one of his students

      Cambridge university professor Dr William O’Reilly
    • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
      FT MagazineSimon Kuper
      What elite American universities can learn from Oxbridge

      US colleges could make themselves more meritocratic — but do they want to?

    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Ben Caldecott
      Academic freedom in ESG research is under threat

      Financial institutions and data providers should not be able to prevent important studies from being published

      Aerial view of a university library with one person standing between the shelves, reading a book
    • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
      Visual and data journalism
      Surge in STIs in England sparks anxiety over reproductive health

      Other charts of the week: foreign graduates, overcrowding in Europe, UK emissions and global trade restrictions

      Montage of a microbiological culture and a lab worker
    • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
      English universities face £125mn hit from pension change

      Higher education leaders warn of ‘great strain’ as publicly funded organisations brace for increase in employer contributions

      The University of Central Lancashire
    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      The UK needs a new deal for its highly taxed graduates

      Repayments under the student loan system hinder their potential contributions to the economy

      Illustration of a graduate shaking hands while being handed a degree certificate, while the shadow shows the graduate handing over cash
    • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
      UK politics
      Home secretary to stop overseas students bringing family to UK

      Suella Braverman reveals package of measures aimed at reducing overall migration

      Students at the University of Birmingham prepare to take part in their graduation ceremony
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