By John Morgan. Savings include cuts in funding for poorest students and forcing existing students to pay more for loans. More...

By John Elmes. Loans to students taking higher technical training should “reflect or begin to compete” with those offered to university students to address the “imbalance” between further and higher education funding, a conference has heard. More...

By Jack Grove. Information from the Office for National Statistics published on 18 November reveals that the women working full-time in higher education in April 2015 were paid 11.1 per cent less than men – 2.4 percentage points lower than the 13.5 per cent gap in April 2014. More...

By Chris Havergal. Sutton Trust research finds three-quarters of leading judges and QCs attended Oxford or Cambridge. More...

By Ellie Bothwell. Universities in Asia have boosted their standing in this year’s Times Higher Education ranking for physical sciences subjects as Europe records mixed results. More...

By David Matthews. The research teams who did best in last year’s research excellence framework (REF) tended to have more non-UK academics and people with experience overseas, and generally used carrots rather than sticks to motivate members, a new analysis has found. More...

By John Morgan. But principal of online, non-profit, private institution warns new Green Paper market entry plans could be seen as 'lowering bar on quality'. More...

By Chris Havergal. The use of “naive” and “imprecise” metrics in the teaching excellence framework could thwart the government’s widening participation agenda, a university leader has warned. More...

By Chris Havergal. The heads of one of South Africa’s leading universities have called for English to become the institution’s “primary language”, after claims that the use of Afrikaans excluded black students. More...

By John Elmes. The University of York has been forced to issue an apology on its website after receiving a social media backlash for deciding to mark International Men’s Day. More...