Government reforms to the curriculum and exam assessment are out of kilter with good educational practice and the wider skills and competencies that employers’ organisations like the CBI have identified as being a desirable outcome of the education system (We need an alternative to universities, 17 August). More...

Thanks to sour grapes and special pleading by scholars at the University of Oxford, in 1265 Northampton’s university was dissolved by King Henry III. Exactly 740 years later it was reinstated, this time in a hodgepodge of buildings on the outskirts of town. More...

New university students are being urged to ensure they have been vaccinated against measles following outbreaks of the highly infectious illness. More...

More than 200 academics voice concerns about government attempts to forge partnerships between British and Egyptian universities, despite Cairo’s crackdown on dissent. More...

Leading British universities have been accused of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in Egypt in pursuit of opening campuses under the country’s authoritarian regime. More...

When I moved to a German university, my colleagues were incredulous at the UK’s obsession with filling places. More...

One university I worked at had no promotions criteria; at another they were so vague as to be meaningless. More...

Calls for public inquiry grow amid anger at lack of clear schedule for displaced residents and businesses. More...

US topples Britain as most popular country for educating world’s political leaders. More...

A scheme lauded by Barack Obama is steering pupils out of hardship and into university. More...