Concerns grow alongside popularity of income-based student loans
Advocacy groups worried by entry of high-cost private lenders to market
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DfE hires finance expert to advise on university collapses
Department advertises for ‘policy expert on HE financial sustainability’ who will shape stance on ‘potential intervention’ if institutions risk closure
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David Davis tips post-18 review to ‘look harder’ at variable fees
Former Brexit secretary calls on Philip Augar’s review panel to lighten the burden of student borrowing
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Alison Wolf: ministers ‘increasingly aware’ of HE growth failings
Universities unable to deliver governments’ ‘unrealistic expectations’ of prosperity and social mobility, says English funding review member
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Excellence in Research for Australia: results announced
Elevated output has not come at cost of excellence, research assessment exercise suggests
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US Education Department begins admissions scandal probe
Initial federal letter asks eight US universities for details on implicated staff and students
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Duke to pay $113 million in record research fraud case
University said to have known of problems with lab technician’s faked data for several years
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Building an international learning society: is the UK listening to the East?
China’s investments in talent circulation and innovation hubs hold many lessons for the UK’s international education ambitions, says Catherine Montgomery
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Scientific outcry as Norway approves loans for astrology courses
Oslo-based programmes win accreditation after regulator rules there is a "field of work" astrologers can enter after graduation
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University-powered fact-checker aims to restore faith in science
Online platform boasting 11,500 academic experts answering public questions seeks backing for global expansion
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Lee Elliot Major: university access heading for ‘perfect storm’
UK’s first professor of social mobility says institutions must focus on outreach activities that are proven to work
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Working-class discrimination is the weed in Plato’s garden
Prejudice against working-class academics threatens the academic integrity of universities, argues Jack Adams
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Reviewer’s verdict: no free speech crisis on Australian campuses
But union says codifying free speech principles would backfire
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Combating grade inflation requires a collective response from universities
A consultation of UK universities shows they are committed to protecting the value of degree qualifications, says Janet Beer