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...

The government thinks education can be bought and sold like a vacuum cleaner – how spectacularly stupid can you get. More...

Readers are unimpressed the government’s plans for judging the quality of university courses by what their alumni earn. More...

Plan under teaching excellence framework will make available details such as potential earnings. More...

The 2018 QS world university rankings, published on 28 February, show that the UK is home to the world’s leading universities in 10 subjects – two more than last year. UK universities make up a third of the world’s top three positions, but these are concentrated in the arts and humanities. More...

Ten of the 48 subject tables are led by UK institutions. No UK institution that held a world-leading status in 2017 has been overtaken by an international competitor. The University of Oxford has retained its number one status for four subjects. The University of Cambridge has taken the top spot for anthropology from Harvard. The UCL Institute of Education remains unrivalled in its field. More...