Universities must broaden their outreach activities beyond sport if they are to encourage more white working-class boys to enter higher education, a study suggests.

Academics are among the refugees – such as these crossing Croatia – fleeing fighting and often persecution in Syria to build new lives elsewhere

Ministers pressed ahead with plans for the teaching excellence framework despite having been warned that students were “not very enthusiastic” about the exercise and that the preferred metrics may fail to significantly differentiate between institutions.

In the late 1970s, Marguerite Dennis was a young admissions officer at Georgetown University in Washington DC. At the time, Iranians were the most populous group of international students on campus.

FutureLearn, the UK’s massive open online course platform, is launching its first programmes that allow students to earn credits towards a university degree.

Average salaries paid to senior university staff are rising three times as fast as the pay awarded to rank-and-file academics, new figures show.

Literary criticism has been taken to a new level by Holger Syme.

Two years ago, Krzysztof Rybiński, a Polish economist leading a private university in Warsaw, was contacted by headhunters from Moscow.

Students who enroll in certificate, associate and bachelor's programs at for-profit colleges and universities generally see a decline in earnings (and typically greater debt) five or six years after attendance, compared to their earnings before enrollment, according to a study.

The proportion of English undergraduates telling a major survey that their degree was poor value for money has exceeded the proportion who felt it was good value for the first time, with concerns focusing on low contact hours and delays in returning assignments.