Top universities report big disparity between male and female employees’ earnings. More...

One of the world’s best universities is coming under increased pressure over how it handled concerns raised about the mass data harvesting at the heart of the Facebook and Cambridge Analytica scandal, after a cache of emails revealed heated exchanges between senior academics involved. More...

Unfortunately, the situation at the Open University is far worse than you reported (Open University plans major cuts to number of staff and courses, 22 March). Despite the university’s warm words about working with academics, the relationship between the vice-chancellor’s executive and the academic body is now characterised by deep mutual contempt. More...

University ‘deeply concerned’ after former Catalan minister Clara Ponsatí named in warrant. More...

In November 2016 I was invited to speak at an Open University reception in London celebrating the launch of a new chair of economics named after my late father, Harold Wilson, who, together with Jennie Lee, brought the Open University into being in the 1960s. More...

Bureaucracy and confused guidance limit free speech, although problem not ‘pervasive’. More...

The government is reviewing fees and assessing universities’ value for money. We ask whether it is involving all the right people. More...

Universities have hit out at government plans to rank their academic teaching according to how much their graduates earn. Vice-chancellors warn they may be forced to cut vital degrees including nursing, social work and policing, because of these courses’ lower earnings potential. More...

Guardian investigation finds many have not enacted reforms to support and protect victims. More...

Universities are falling behind government targets to increase female representation on their boards by 2020. They need to take action now. More...