Postgraduates say they fell ill due to poor living conditions and launch crowdfunding page to begin legal action against university. More...
The Guardian view on the 1%: all gain, no pain
The richest in our society are not worth the rewards they give themselves. It’s because they have captured ideologically the political process that these absurdities continue. More...
What if all students spent a year working the land before university?
A year of ‘eco-conscription’ between school and university would renew the bonds between people and the land. More...
UK students should not try to pay off loans early, research suggests
Students should not try to pay off their loans early despite the controversial interest rate rise to 6.1% in September, according to research by money expert Martin Lewis. More...
Class prejudice and the student debt crisis
British universities have been undergoing a transformation from being institutions bent on promoting scholarship and preserving civilised values into places bent on facilitating the cost-effective throughput of learning-receptor units who attend principally to purchase certified eduproduct: if nothing else, the unthinking adoption of soul-numbing management speak attests to that. More...
Pressure to publish in journals drives too much cookie-cutter research
Evaluating academic performance on the basis of journal publications is skewing research priorities. This does our public funders a disservice. More...
Poll finds that 60% of Britons want to keep their EU citizenship
'A violence no autopsy can reveal': the deadly cost of India's campus prejudice
Many Dalit students regard university as a place of ridicule and abuse. Amrit Dhillon investigates the aftermath of two suicides and asks: is it time to make campus caste discrimination a criminal offence. More...
Skills shortage costs British businesses £2bn a year, survey finds
Open University says firms pay extra for recruitment, temps and inflating salaries and advises them to train their staff. More...
Let's use the Tef to bring lofty universities back down to earth
The Tef is an opportunity for universities to shift their focus from conducting research in ivory towers to giving all students the best experience. More...