By Kelly Field. The key theme for higher education in President Obama's 2016 budget plan, unveiled on Monday, is affordability. Through a combination of tax breaks and subsidies, the president aims to make the cost of college less of a barrier to attending. More...

By Beckie Supiano. Income inequality in higher education has widened over the last 45 years. That’s the case made in a report released on Tuesday by the Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education and the University of Pennsylvania's Alliance for Higher Education and Democracy.
The report, “Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States,” uses government data to illustrate disparities in the educational experience of students from different family-income backgrounds. More...

By Katherine Mangan. Middle-class college students should have more opportunities to "get the best skills possible," as quickly and cheaply as possible, and making community-college tuition free would help achieve that goal, President Obama said on Friday during an address at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis.
Speaking and answering questions from students at the headquarters of one of the nation’s largest statewide community-college systems, the president touted his free-tuition proposal and said that heading straight to a four-year college isn’t for everyone. More...

By Agency. Cash-strapped students sign up to Seeking Arrangement website in bid to find wealthy suitor to pay tuition fees in return for 'companionship'. Thousands of female students are paying off loans and fees by signing up to a dating website where they are paired off with rich men. Read more...

By James Connington. Four months, one drained bank account and more than a few embarrassing incidents later, I’ve returned to the ever so slightly warmer shores of the UK. It was a somewhat surreal transition, as I went from an exam in Germany to lectures in London in the space of 48 hours. Read more...

By Ben Riley-Smith. Greg Clark, Tory minister for universities, defends the decision to increase tuition fees as “phenomenal investment” costing little more than a daily coffee. Read more...

By Tom Slater. It's easy to laugh at students who try to ban sombreros or applause, but new free speech rankings show how their censorious megalomania is getting out of hand. Read more...

By Katie Morley. Following reports in these pages about the risk of underestimating the full cost student loans, a number of students and their parents have tried to pay off their debts. And they have discovered the process to be far from straightforward. Read more...