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  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    The Big Read
    The growing tensions around spinouts at British universities

    Millions of pounds are being invested to turn scientific research into global companies. But some founders say they have to give up too much equity

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    UK labour disputes
    UK braced for biggest day of strikes this winter

    Workers from rail, teaching and university sectors to walk out on February 1 in co-ordinated action over pay

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    Lack of clinical academics threatens NHS research and teaching, say peers

    Shortage of doctors with university posts is putting health service on ‘dangerous precipice’

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    UK immigration
    Bilimoria warns cutting foreign student numbers would be ‘utter madness’

    Former CBI president criticises government moves to bring down migration by targeting universities

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    News in-depth
    UK universities target overseas students from outside China

    India, South Asia and Nigeria become key markets as sector seeks to diversify its intake over political risks

  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    Charlie Jeffery
    How to solve the problem of university strikes

    Students and staff will suffer unless we find a lasting way to fund British undergraduate degrees

  • Wednesday, 11 January, 2023
    Warning of hardship for English students over size of rise in financial support

    Russell Group of universities hits out at government’s below-inflation increase in maintenance loans

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    UK universities turn to philanthropy to bolster finances

    Institutions increasingly take advantage of appetite from wealthy donors, says Imperial president

  • Sunday, 18 December, 2022
    Artificial intelligence
    AI breakthrough ChatGPT raises alarm over student cheating

    Academics urge universities to develop new forms of assessment after launch of program that imitates essay-writing

  • Friday, 9 December, 2022
    Sergei Guriev
    America’s world-beating universities still face significant challenges

    US institutions dominate the global rankings but are less international than they should be

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    InterviewThe Henry Mance Interview
    Louise Richardson: ‘I do wish our students were more resilient about nasty remarks’

    Before she steps down this month, the vice-chancellor of Oxford university talks about cancel culture, state schools and why universities should not be businesses

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    European business schools
    UK business schools come to terms with Brexit

    Visa changes, the fall in sterling and more non-EU students have cushioned the impact

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    UK schools
    Failure to meet teacher training targets set to hit English schools

    Staff shortages emerge in key subjects as recruitment slumps, with science among worst affected

  • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
    Cat Rutter Pooley
    Student housing is the bubble that won’t burst

    Budget squeezes are no match for a sector with a structural supply shortfall

  • Friday, 25 November, 2022
    UK university leaders defend benefits of overseas students

    Talk of limiting overseas students has done damage, says sector concerned by reports of visa curbs

  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    UK labour disputes
    UK universities and Scottish schools hit by strike action over pay and pensions

    Historic walkouts come as unions call for ‘meaningful’ pay rises amid mounting strain across education system

  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    Social affairs
    Students hit by cost of living crunch

    91 per cent of undergraduates worried about cost of living pressures, survey says

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    UK university staff to stage ‘biggest ever’ strike in November

    Employees at 150 campuses to walk out for three days over pay and pensions

  • Tuesday, 8 November, 2022
    News in-depth
    University expansion drive collides with UK student housing shortage

    Youngsters struggle to secure accommodation after pandemic leads to acceleration in undergraduate intake

  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    Maira Rana
    The health paradox: a dearth of doctors and a surplus of applicants

    It is a false economy to balk at the cost of putting aspiring medics like me through medical school

  • Thursday, 27 October, 2022
    ReviewFT Books Essay
    US universities and their role in a country at war with itself

    America’s higher education leads the world — yet at home it feeds social inequality and economic stress. Can it be fixed?

  • Monday, 24 October, 2022
    UK labour disputes
    UK universities face national strike as pay and pensions dispute escalates

    UCU threatens to ‘bring entire sector to a standstill’ after securing landmark mandate

  • Tuesday, 18 October, 2022
    Anjana Ahuja
    Making research funding a lottery could help tackle ‘status bias’

    The system of peer review tends to favour established names and institutions

  • Friday, 30 September, 2022
    Joy Lo Dico
    University is daunting — for a newly liberated parent

    I have to learn how to be an autonomous adult again

  • Wednesday, 21 September, 2022
    James Hymers
    Should you pay your child’s university fees up front?

    Avoiding the student loan system will benefit graduates for decades to come

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