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  • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
    National Health Service
    Number of UK nursing students plummets despite NHS shortages

    Low wages and student debt worries are believed to have undermined applications, putting workforce plan in doubt

    A nurse walks through an NHS hospital ward
  • Saturday, 16 September, 2023
    Camilla Cavendish
    It is a miracle that students aren’t rioting at beleaguered universities

    Innovative new courses and schools show what is sadly missing from over-regulated mainstream higher education

    Illustration of a stack of pound coins that starts to look like an Ancient Greek column towards the top. On the column is a statue of a man holding a degree certificate and wearing a mortar board
  • Wednesday, 13 September, 2023
    Glen O'Hara
    Britain’s university crisis is reaching a tipping point

    Ministerial rhetoric about too many undergraduates ignores the real causes of the problem

    A student in a university library
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    LexUK property
    Student housing: dorm storm means young ones are the stung ones Premium content

    Insufficient university accommodation reflects problems in the wider buy-to-let sector

    Still from The Young Ones sitcom
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Emma Jacobs
    University is more than just a springboard to a job

    As employers decide job candidates no longer need degrees, the benefits of college years need spelling out

  • Friday, 18 August, 2023
    Work & Careers
    Is a degree worth it?

    Employers are starting to look more at skills than education, which is good news for students opting not to go to university

    Montage image of a bin with mortar boards and some line graphs
  • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
    UK schools
    UK exam boards make sharp cuts to top A-level grades

    Return to pre-pandemic marking causes A and A* grades to fall to 27.2% of total, down 9 percentage points

    Students react after receiving their A-level results at Ark Acton Academy in west London. The fall in A and A* grades in the UK equated to 73,000 fewer top marks in 2023
  • Sunday, 13 August, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    UK universities and unions urged to negotiate as strikes hit students

    Minister calls for talks as ‘damaging’ marking boycott leaves undergraduates without degree results

    Students in Edinburgh demonstrate  in support of UCU industrial action
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Student finance
    How to help children pay for university

    As the new academic year looms, parents face financial, social and educational dilemmas

  • Sunday, 30 July, 2023
    Student finance
    Universities demand more help for poorest students in England

    Report finds average annual rent in private accommodation will exceed maximum maintenance loan

  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Property sector
    British university towns grapple with student housing shortage

    Shortfall in student beds rose 45% in London since 2017-18, according to property survey

    A student in his bedroom
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    News in-depth
    Students are suing UK universities over Covid disruption. Do they have a case?

    About 120,000 people are seeking compensation but lawyers say they face an uphill battle

  • Saturday, 22 July, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

    Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

    Illustration of two people wearing academic gowns and mortarboards looking up at balloons, each with a degree certificate tied to its string. One balloon is gold, while other contain fragments of £10 notes
  • Friday, 21 July, 2023
    Britons squeezed out of top universities by lucrative overseas students

    Intake of lower-paying domestic students drops at Russell Group as funding crisis bites

  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Universities Superannuation Scheme
    UK universities set to secure big cut in pensions bill

    Universities Superannuation Scheme records a surplus after more than a decade in deficit due to sharp rise in interest rates

    A student walks in the campus of Glasgow university
  • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
    The Big Read
    The looming financial crisis at UK universities

    Tuition fees are not keeping up with the rising costs of the country’s world-class higher education sector, prompting calls for a radical rethink

    Buildings from Aberdeen university, Sheffield university, Manchester university and Imperial College, plus a student protesting in Edinburgh and a graph line showing falling spending per student
  • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
    Sunak announces crackdown on ‘poor quality’ university courses

    Higher education regulator will be required to limit number of students recruited on to certain courses

    Photo of university graduates on graduation day
  • Friday, 16 June, 2023
    University of Cambridge
    Cambridge professor remains in post despite plagiarism

    History academic published an article containing large parts of essays copied from one of his students

    Cambridge university professor Dr William O’Reilly
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    What elite American universities can learn from Oxbridge

    US colleges could make themselves more meritocratic — but do they want to?

  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Ben Caldecott
    Academic freedom in ESG research is under threat

    Financial institutions and data providers should not be able to prevent important studies from being published

    Aerial view of a university library with one person standing between the shelves, reading a book
  • Sunday, 11 June, 2023
    Visual and data journalism
    Surge in STIs in England sparks anxiety over reproductive health

    Other charts of the week: foreign graduates, overcrowding in Europe, UK emissions and global trade restrictions

    Montage of a microbiological culture and a lab worker
  • Thursday, 1 June, 2023
    English universities face £125mn hit from pension change

    Higher education leaders warn of ‘great strain’ as publicly funded organisations brace for increase in employer contributions

    The University of Central Lancashire
  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    Stephen Bush
    The UK needs a new deal for its highly taxed graduates

    Repayments under the student loan system hinder their potential contributions to the economy

    Illustration of a graduate shaking hands while being handed a degree certificate, while the shadow shows the graduate handing over cash
  • Tuesday, 23 May, 2023
    UK politics
    Home secretary to stop overseas students bringing family to UK

    Suella Braverman reveals package of measures aimed at reducing overall migration

    Students at the University of Birmingham prepare to take part in their graduation ceremony
  • Wednesday, 17 May, 2023
    Oxford college urged to reform after damaging feud

    Report proposes 500-year-old Christ Church loosens historic relationship with clergy

    Exterior of Meadow building, part of Christ Church college, Oxford
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