Survey suggests that students feel they lack support from their universities in managing their finances. More...
I worried my dyslexia would hold me back, until I started a degree apprenticeship
A new report warns that few students even know what a degree apprenticeship is, but it was a lifeline for me. More...
State-school kids who rose to the top in universities
Only 16% of university heads were privately educated, in contrast to judges and elite civil servants. Why the difference. More...
University green rankings at risk despite climate emergency
While young people call for urgent action on the climate emergency, universities are lagging behind, with two-thirds likely to fail their 2020 targets for the reduction of carbon emissions. And academic conferences are partly to blame. More...
Pearson shifts to Netflix-style subscription model for textbooks
Academic publisher hopes to convince students to pay to access online materials. More...
Parents use savings and second jobs to support children at university
Survey finds more than four in five parents plan to contribute to living expenses. More...
'A unique and slightly mad effort': mapping Britain in poetry
Pinned just west of Marsden, Yorkshire on a 17th-century map of the UK, is a poem by the UK’s new poet laureate, Simon Armitage. “The sky has delivered / its blank missive. / The moor in coma.” Move west, to the Isle of Man, and the poet is a little less well known – she’s dubbed herself Mrs Yorkshire the Baking Bard – but the sense of place is just as strong (and the rhymes are better, too): “I climbed Maughold Head as the morning sun rose / And the darkness surrendered to light / Where the buttery bloom of the golden gorse grows / And adventurous seabirds take flight.” More...
Quantum leap from Australian research promises super-fast computing power
‘Ruthlessly systematic’ research achieves qubit communication 200 times faster than ever before. More...
I was hired to sell ice-cream for the summer – instead I got to read the classics
A wet summer in a Welsh ice-cream parlour was the perfect way to cope with impending adulthood. More...
Racism in UK universities is blocking BAME academics from the top
Universities must be upfront about institutional racism to become fairer places for black, Asian and minority ethnic staff. More...