By Josie Gurney-Read. Higher education institutions should focus on developing talent from a young age in order to encourage more children from disadvantaged backgrounds into university, an education expert has claimed. More...

By Connor Parker. When George Osborne announced his intention to axe the student maintenance grant and replace it with debt in his 2015 summer Budget there was an outcry across the country. More...

By Jack Elsom. Be it in schools, colleges or universities, the British education system is littered with a minefield of exams, and every pupil who is the product of this system will have been relentlessly tested. More...

By Simon Heffer. Many useful idiots will emerge during the referendum campaign, and to set the ball rolling comes one Caroline Horslen of University College London’s School of European Languages, Culture and Society. More...

By Allison Pearson. It is my sad duty to announce the passing of a much-loved old friend. During Cambridge Rag Week, in 1979, when I stood, half-naked in an ostrich costume (silk camisole, feathers, big pants), aboard my college’s Australia float, surrounded by young oarsmen dressed as Aborigines, we had no idea that we were taking part in a grotesque act of cultural appropriation. More...

I hoped the absurdities about pulling down statues and disowning the history of Oxbridge colleges had passed: but two more lunacies emerge, this time from Cambridge. More...

By Simon Johnson. Fewer children from the poorest backgrounds were admitted to Scotland’s ancient universities last year as the gap in performance between the best and worst state schools widened again, according to official figures. More...

By Chris Graham. An Australian university has been accused of rewriting history after it encouraged students to use the terms "invaded" and "occupied" for the arrival of British settlers.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Indigenous Terminology guide, which states that Australia was "invaded, occupied and colonised", has drawn an angry reaction in some quarters.
Referring to Captain James Cook's arrival in Botany Bay in 1770, a headline in the conservative Daily Telegraph newspaper in Sydney said: "UNSW rewrites the history books to state Cook 'invaded' Australia". More...