A new campaign aims to get universities to double the proportion of students on overseas placement, and to increase the diversity of those who go abroad. More...

Was it conceived as a necessary bulwark to a moribund, failing capitalism, or is it an active creator of destitution, or something to be cherished? Guardian readers discuss. More...

As lecturers, we’re supposed to teach our students how to examine arguments critically. How can we do this when we’re accused of bias and stifling free speech. More...

National university organisations across Europe have warned that uncertainty about the UK’s continued involvement in European programmes after 2019 is already causing problems, and demanded faster progress in Brexit talks. More...

University condemns abuse directed at group of students who sought to broaden literature studies to include black authors. More...

The way Lola Olufemi has been treated by the press is painfully familiar. But it won’t stop us from fighting to reform curriculums at universities. More...

Last year’s post-Brexit decline is reversed as Ucas receives more than 61,000 applications by early October deadline. More...

Our panel responds to the government’s clampdown on student unions which ‘no platform’ controversial speakers. More...

Universities! What are they like? If they’re not taking money from people who don’t even use them like no other public service ever, they’re championing anti-Brexit thinking! Just because they rely on things like knowledge and education and analysis and expertise and study and facts and an awareness of how reality works, they think they can defy the will of some of the people at a particular point in time from over a year ago? Such arrogance! Such elitism. More...

A Cambridge student has accused the media of a “very targeted form of harassment” after she was “flooded” with racist and sexist abuse for criticising the lack of black and ethnic minority authors on the university’s English course. More...