The annual report of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator showed that an increasing proportion of complaints were from students dissatisfied with poor facilities, and with course content differing to what was originally offered. Complaints also arose over a lack of teaching and supervision. More...

Universities are being urged not to tell the police about students caught in possession of drugs, amid fears that an overly punitive approach stops vulnerable young people from seeking help. More...

Visit the average university campus and it is likely that the newest and most ostentatious building will be occupied by the business school. The business school has the best building because it makes the biggest profits (or, euphemistically, “contribution” or “surplus”) – as you might expect, from a form of knowledge that teaches people how to make profits. More...

I expected a culture shock when I crossed the Atlantic, but I didn’t anticipate how corporatised British universities would be. More...

Not many people know that there is a sizeable Canadian student minority living in Leicester. Around a quarter of the student population at the University of Leicester’s law school is Canadian and that number has been steadily growing since 2007. More...

The number of students caught cheating at the UK’s top universities has shot up by a third in three years, with experts warning that institutions are ignoring the problem. More...