When you rent a property – whether a room in halls or a shared house – you sign a legal contract that sets out rules for you and your landlord. Ignoring the small print may cause problems throughout your tenancy, but can bite particularly hard when you move out. More...

The university’s management accepted a motion, known as a grace, which urged Cambridge to “set out fully the advantages and disadvantages, including the social and political ones”, of divestment from global coal, oil and gas companies. More...

Student unions have played a vital role as universities tackle the problem of sexual violence on campus. This matters because the experience of sexual violence can take a serious toll on both one’s physical and mental health. More...

Having recently put myself forward as a potential candidate for the forthcoming Oxford poetry professorship election, I am gobsmacked to discover that this venerable university has pulled a drawbridge up against anyone older than 69 qualifying for such a long-memoried position. More...

A vulnerable university student who twice tried to kill herself was left for a month without anti-depressant medication before she was found dead, an inquest has heard. More...

Cambridge University has announced that it will finally – just two centuries after the abolition of slavery and about 80 years after the end of the British empire – conduct an “in-depth academic study into ways in which it contributed to, benefited from or challenged the Atlantic slave trade and other forms of coerced labour during the colonial era”. More...

Leading academics are accusing the government of unlawfully threatening their autonomy by trying to curb the use of unconditional offers. More...

As news leaked that the government was planning to introduce higher fees and restrict access to student support for EU students, we were treated in parliament to a fine display of hand-wringing from supporters of this change. Apparently it would be morally indefensible, post-Brexit, to offer preferential terms to EU nationals wishing to study here, when compared with those from developing countries. More...

A number of top universities have punished students for posting Islamophobic, racist, antisemitic, homophobic and transphobic comments, or pictures of offensive weapons being brandished and other offensive content online. More...