Record numbers of black, female and state school students belie wide variations in admissions across colleges. More...

The university’s sound financial footing is built on the back of discrimination against its cleaners, caterers and security guards. More...

Postdoc researchers like me aren’t considered university employees, even though we’re essential to research. This must change. More...

The Augar report acknowledges this, making positive recommendations as to how to extend its reach: the reintroduction of maintenance grants is particularly helpful. Welcome as it is, this development merely foreshadows what should be a policy direction for the future. More...

The proposals are significantly regressive, increasing total payments made by lower earners, such as teachers and nurses. More...

For us all fully to share memories of mass atrocity (such as slavery, Holocaust, ethnic cleansing) and the abjection of individuals, and to share a commitment to social justice, we need both to overhaul the curricula at every level of our education system and to implement a radical redistribution of wealth and power. More...

Universities are under growing pressure to improve accessibility for students. But is it working. More...

A British professor who has claimed that aluminium in vaccines is linked to autism has raised more than £22,000 to support his work through a Keele University online donations portal, the Guardian can reveal. More...

Not everyone knows what they want to do at 18. So why has the mature student become a dying breed. More...

Readers debate course structure, tuition fees, mental health, the importance of arts and humanities, and the need to work for a common good. More...