By Jack Grove. A record 532,000 undergraduates were accepted into university last autumn, and applications to higher education are up once again, latest figures show. More...

By Ellie Bothwell. US students engage in riskier behaviour, such as using drugs and drinking dangerous levels of alcohol, while studying abroad, according to a new study that argues that universities should take more. More...

By Matthew Reisz. There is no such thing as an average person. In the late 1940s, the United States Air Force couldn’t understand why pilots found it so physically difficult to keep control of their planes. More...

By Matthew Reisz. Proposals to measure teaching excellence present major challenges for universities educating students for the creative industries, says Nigel Carrington. More...

By Matthew Reisz. Novelists can write about sex in ways that are exciting or disturbing, comic or nostalgic, lyrical or grotesque. None of these options is really open to academics. And just as there is a good deal of academic writing about food, sport or rock ’n’ roll, for example, that manages to drain all the fun and passion out of these topics, the same is certainly true of sex. Fortunately, there are also many academics who manage to be serious and illuminating about sex without being dull. More...

By Matthew Reisz. A new academic book challenges much of the received wisdom about the nature and development of human sexuality. More...

By David Matthews. Oxford college says it has received an ‘overwhelming message’ in favour of keeping the statue standing. More...